On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
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