[Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Article Editing History
Hi, I'm looking to find out if a tool exists that does the following: 1. Gets the history of selected articles. 2. Determines the geographic location of IP address edits. 3. Determines the geographic location of logged in user edits. I'm interested in this as my research focuses on Australian sport. I'd like to determine if edits are coming from fans of the sport, fans of the league, fans of specific teams. I can probably get some one to build me a tool that does what I want but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if it already exists. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Article Editing History
HI Laura, There is no publicly-accessible tool that provides the IP address/location of logged in users of Wikimedia projects. The CheckUser extension can provide the IPs used by any user account, but it is only used for a *very*narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia's privacy policy. Steven Walling On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking to find out if a tool exists that does the following: 1. Gets the history of selected articles. 2. Determines the geographic location of IP address edits. 3. Determines the geographic location of logged in user edits. I'm interested in this as my research focuses on Australian sport. I'd like to determine if edits are coming from fans of the sport, fans of the league, fans of specific teams. I can probably get some one to build me a tool that does what I want but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if it already exists. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Article Editing History
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: HI Laura, There is no publicly-accessible tool that provides the IP address/location of logged in users of Wikimedia projects. The CheckUser extension can provide the IPs used by any user account, but it is only used for a *very*narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia's privacy policy. I'm just looking at IP address edits that are publicly available on Wikipedia history pages. As for the location of logged in users, that is easy enough to get from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location . It just has to be accepted, when doing research like that, that the data set won't be complete for all logged in users. And even for IP address edits, that location is nominally nothing more than an educated guess... especially when you're looking for edits from a country like New Zealand, where they don't have a dedicated IP address range. -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Article Editing History
You are to be commended on your understanding of the technology and methodology. Could you do some qualitative work to try and hone in on the motivations of your sample? --Sam On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: HI Laura, There is no publicly-accessible tool that provides the IP address/location of logged in users of Wikimedia projects. The CheckUser extension can provide the IPs used by any user account, but it is only used for a *very * narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia's privacy policy. I'm just looking at IP address edits that are publicly available on Wikipedia history pages. As for the location of logged in users, that is easy enough to get from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location . It just has to be accepted, when doing research like that, that the data set won't be complete for all logged in users. And even for IP address edits, that location is nominally nothing more than an educated guess... especially when you're looking for edits from a country like New Zealand, where they don't have a dedicated IP address range. -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
