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 <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 February 2013 20:06, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> 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 said, de-anonymizing such information might not be > > difficult, *especially* on articles that are edited by only a select > group > > of users, e.g., most Wikipedia articles. > > > > > I'm assuming you've added an extra "not" there - for many articles that > have a very small number of editors, it would be vanishingly easy to start > geolocating people, especially with a couple of cross references. > > I'll throw in for the record that geolocation is really problematic for > countries with very limited numbers of IPs (which coincidentally are often > countries with censorious governments), and there are huge regions where IP > data cannot be considered at all accurate: for example, most of the Middle > East. > > Risker/Anne > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
