Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread MZMcBride
Roan Kattouw wrote: > To see what geoip makes of your location, simply visit > http://geoip.wikimedia.org . You mean http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/11/3 Strainu : > Thanks Chad. I'm interested in some more informations about that, > especially how does this relates to the Privacy policy. > > Is the information stored anywhere? All geoip does is look at your IP address and do a database lookup to translate it to your rough location. In the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Ryan Lane
> Thanks Chad. I'm interested in some more informations about that, > especially how does this relates to the Privacy policy. > > Is the information stored anywhere? Is there any way to opt-out of > this? Is there another service used for this project (I'm thinking > Google Latitude, but there are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Strainu
2010/11/3 Chad : > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Strainu wrote: >> Hi there. >> >> What is http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ and how is it used in the >> wikipedia articles? I haven't seen this subdomain loading until >> recently. >> > > It's a IP-to-location lookup service[0]. The only thing I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Chad
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Strainu wrote: > Hi there. > > What is http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ and how is it used in the > wikipedia articles? I haven't seen this subdomain loading until > recently. > It's a IP-to-location lookup service[0]. The only thing I know it's being used on is f

[Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Strainu
Hi there. What is http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ and how is it used in the wikipedia articles? I haven't seen this subdomain loading until recently. Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedi