Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well keep in mind it's not just the total number of editors. The requirement would have to be that the number the editors in each independent geographic region would have to either be zero or above a threshold. Meaning if we did geo-analysis based on countries, any country with at least one editor

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-17 Thread Basil George
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > On 02/16/2013 01:50 PM, Basil George wrote: > > *We have tried to address the privacy issues in obtaining IPs > > here< > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_History_Visualizer_and_Improvement_Suggester

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 02/16/2013 01:38 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: If you start cross referencing user contribs with geo history maps im sure one would be able to find out who is where. Yes, I think that's unsurmountable; there are very many articles with few enough distinct contributors that even anonymised the data

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
Eh, English. But that's what I meant, it would be very easy. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Risker wrote: > On 16 February 2013 20:06, Tyler Romeo wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Risker
On 16 February 2013 20:06, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Keep in mind we already do log IP addresses (to an extent, for CheckUser > and whatnot), so the issue isn't actually capturing information, it's the > use and display of that information, especially since such display would be > public. Like Brian s

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
Keep in mind we already do log IP addresses (to an extent, for CheckUser and whatnot), so the issue isn't actually capturing information, it's the use and display of that information, especially since such display would be public. Like Brian said, de-anonymizing such information might not be diffic

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/16/2013 12:30 PM, Basil George wrote: > Please go through the proposal > here > and > do endorse it if you find it interesting. I also think you shou

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/16/2013 01:50 PM, Basil George wrote: > *We have tried to address the privacy issues in obtaining IPs > here. > As

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Basil George
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > First off its nice to see technical ieg's being proposed. > > How do you plan to gelocate logged in users. Logged in user's ips are > considered sensitive and your tool will not have access to them to do geo > ip stuff on. You could maybe try

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-02-16 2:30 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" wrote: > > On 02/16/2013 01:24 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> >> How do you plan to gelocate logged in users. Logged in user's ips are >> considered sensitive and your tool will not have access to them to do geo >> ip stuff on. You could maybe try and process

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 02/16/2013 01:24 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: How do you plan to gelocate logged in users. Logged in user's ips are considered sensitive and your tool will not have access to them to do geo ip stuff on. You could maybe try and process user pages but that sounds difficult. Just a random thought to

Re: [Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-02-16 1:30 PM, "Basil George" wrote: > > Hi all > I am Basil George, a research scholar at IIIT, Hyderabad< http://iiit.ac.in/>, > India. I have submitted an IEG proposal to build a tool for easy > visualization of revision histories of Wikipedia pages along with their > relevant statistic

[Wikitech-l] New IEG Proposal: Revision History Visualizer and Improvement Suggester using Geo-Spatial Technologies

2013-02-16 Thread Basil George
Hi all I am Basil George, a research scholar at IIIT, Hyderabad, India. I have submitted an IEG proposal to build a tool for easy visualization of revision histories of Wikipedia pages along with their relevant statistics by rendering them onto a map. The tool will also provide