On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:21 PM, dinar qorbanof <qdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/28 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > > I'm still not clear why we would want to know the IP exactly for > analytical > > purposes. Some intrepid programmer could write a program which would > > simply collect detailed analysis of a person's in-world behaviour and > call them > > "Bob992" instead of 13.42.204.192 or whatever. Making the information > > packets anonymous. That would still allow any sort of analysis the > Tatars want to > > make, and not reveal any private information. > i just has not thought about that as threat. theoretically ip > addresses can be used to count how much wikipedia readers are in > russia regions. such statistics is made by russian counters: > liveinternet, and maybe, mail.ru . but i do not know whether any tatar > can get such database to make such counter for wikipedia logs. > probably some russian companies can make such analysis for russian and > tatar and other wikipedias of languages of russia. > >the Tatars want to make > on the one hand, i do not represent [all] tatars, and on the one hand, > i think i represent also other language native speakers. > > The sampled 1/1000 squid logs can be used for statistical purposes, such as page view stats. Someone more techy can answer that better than I can, if the samples include IP addresses that could be used w/ geoip for geographic analysis. (I think perhaps not) Here are the page view stats generated from the squid sample logs: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ http://stats.grok.se/ For other analysis of readership, we do get stats from comScore, but that's survey data from panelists and nothing to do with logs. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia -Katie (@aude) _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l