Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report for June 2011
On 7/1/2011 11:19 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: *Academic publications authentication proxy* --- Chad Horohoe http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:%5Edemon started a project whose goal is to allow selected Wikimedians to access third-party academic publishing sites to help with content verifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability. The authentication challenges this entails are not trivial; Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane is also involved in this project, particularly because of his previous experience with OpenID (which may be used as a mechanism for tying to CentralAuth). ^--- This burns me up. It seems to me that organizations that charge $1000's of dollars for access to content should not be getting free publicity from organizations like Wikipedia. They deserve to vanish in obscurity, dry up and blow away in the winds of history. Governments pay $50,000 or $100,000 to have a research paper written, but they can't seem to find the $5 it would take to make the paper available for free indefinitely. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report for June 2011
Guillaume Paumier wrote: The report of Wikimedia engineering activities for June 2011 is now available: Blog version: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/01/engineering-june-2011-report/ Wiki version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2011/June [quote] Summer of Research 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane created the systems infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and analysis work. [/quote] Do you have more info about this? It sounds like they're duplicating the Toolserver, but it's hard to say without knowing more. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report for June 2011
[quote] Summer of Research 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 ‹ Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane created the systems infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and analysis work. [/quote] Do you have more info about this? It sounds like they're duplicating the Toolserver, but it's hard to say without knowing more. They need access to information not available on the toolserver. This is just a single virtual machine that has mysql access to a database replica. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report for June 2011
Ryan Lane wrote: [quote] Summer of Research 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 - Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane created the systems infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and analysis work. [/quote] Do you have more info about this? It sounds like they're duplicating the Toolserver, but it's hard to say without knowing more. They need access to information not available on the toolserver. This is just a single virtual machine that has mysql access to a database replica. Ah, okay. Thanks for the quick reply! :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
