I see that I still get that same error when I try to use the tool, e.g., http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/enwiki/wiki/Bargain . Piotr, were you able to get in contact with the author? If so, you might just ask for the source code and then ask on the labs-l list to see whether anyone would be willing to move it from Toolserver to Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org/
All tools on Tool Labs must be open source https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#Rules_of_use to help prevent this kind of difficulty. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 06/14/2013 08:47 AM, Finn �rup Nielsen wrote: > The article behind WikiDashboard is this one: > > Lifting the veil: Improving accountability and social transparency in > Wikipedia with WikiDashboard by Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi, Aniket Kittur, > Bryan A. Pendleton. > > Suh, Chi andn Kittur are no longer at Park as far as I see. I can't see > Suh's email. Chi's is here: chi [at] acm.org. He is also active on > Google Plus. > > See also http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/Bongwon_Suh > http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/Ed_H._Chi > > /Finn > > > On 06/14/2013 01:53 PM, Piotr Konieczny wrote: >> For the last week or so I am getting the following error when trying to >> use the http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/ tool: "403: User account >> expired. The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user >> wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are >> automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To >> prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block >> requests to expired content. If you think you are receiving this page in >> error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this >> document: wiki_researcher [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not >> contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix >> itonly the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)" >> >> I've tried contacting the owner, and send an email to PARC >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29> (it's their project, >> per the logo seen at the project page ) through their web form, but so >> far - nothing. Can anyone help to contact them? >> >> The tool is useful not only for research (I've used and I am sure so >> have others here); it is also one of the tools used by Good Article >> reviewers (and linked from >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Good_article_tools) >> >> Why we allow toolserver tools used by the community to expire in such a >> confusing way is beyond me. >> >> -- >> Piotr Konieczny, PhD >> http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny >> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
