2012/7/24 <birgitte...@yahoo.com>: > [...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to connect people with > local events, has real value. And that it has value for the individual people > just as much as for it.WM.
strong +1. > The main question is whether the benefit from being able to connect people > with local events is worth the risk of collecting more personalized of their > data than we are accustomed to handling. I could be wrong but I don't think we would "handle more data" than what we are doing now. We are not going to use that data and as far as I know that data "dies" in the moment the system has output the message. > Maybe the benefit does win out for many people in Italy (I don't really > understand enough about what degree of improvement you are anticipating to > have a firm opinion). But it is certainly not worth the risk for people in > areas that do not notice problems with the current system. I will say that this seems fair enough for me, from what I have seen I can say that the current system is working on wide flat areas with enough internet provider servers coverage, this could vary from country to country for a number of reasons (from morphology to broadband penetration, etc.). > This is why I am suggesting that the browser feature might only be limited to > areas that are known to reach some pre-defined level of error under > geolocation. Or else that it be made an opt-in feature (perhaps even > advertised through the current geonotice in areas that are known to be a > problem). However I don't believe that gathering more browser data for > everyone everywhere is a likely to be good overall solution. Yes, opt-in is a viable solution but I think it spoils the best from the system, in fact with opt-in we would only reach people that: * are registered users * are expert enough to know that such gadgets exist and know how to activate them (I didn't know this myself till some months ago although I'm a Wikipedia editor from 4+ years). and I expect this category of users are already participating or already know how to get informations about meet-ups and local events even if are buried in obscure pages. Anyway, I would be very glad of seeing a new study, comprehending more countries but I don't have enough time (and probably all the necessary competences) needed for it, maybe we could some professor interested on doing such a study (I think it could well be a research work for an undergraduate student or a bachelor thesis). Do you think this could work? Cristian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
