I have a toolserver account and would be willing to run some queries for him, what kind of queries are you wanting to run
Betacommand On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm not sure exactly where to raise this, so am asking here. > > A researcher I have been in touch with has proposed starting a 2nd, > research-oriented Wikimedia toolserver. He thinks his lab can pay for > the hardware and would be willing to maintain it, if they could get > help setting it up. He got this idea after a member of his research > group tried (unsuccessfully so far -- no response) to get an account > on the current toolserver; their Wikipedia-related research has been > put on hold for a few months because of the delay. (It seems like > there is a big backlog of account requests right now and only one > person working on them?) This research group has done some > interesting Wikipedia research to date and I expect they could do more > with access to the right data. > > Personally, I think a dedicated toolserver is a great idea for the > research community, but I know very little about the technical issues > involved and/or whether this has been proposed before. Please comment, > and I can pass on replies and put the researcher in touch with the > tech team if it seems like a good idea. > > -- user: "first post on wikitech" phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
