2010/11/3 Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> 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 for targeting the country-specific donation > information. > > -Chad > > [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software >
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 others)? Thanks, Strainu _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
