On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Morten Warncke-Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> The major difference from our perspective is how applications for new
> accounts would be handled.  Our idea is to be able to hand out
> accounts based around the likelihood of effective research, rather
> than on visibility within Wikipedia, or on the usefulness of the
> resulting tool to the larger Wikipedia community.  The latter two
> cases are already handled well by the existing toolserver and its
> application process.  Accounts on the research toolserver would be
> approved based on the quality of the research ideas, and the ability
> of the proposing team to carry out the research.

As far as I know, the account approval process on the toolserver is
fairly lax.  As long as you have some credible Wikipedia-related
reason to use the toolserver, whether tools or research, you should be
able to get an account.  Am I wrong?  Have any researchers been
rejected from the toolserver?

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