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 it---only 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.
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 it—only 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
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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,
I did get in touch with Ed Chi (edchi@google.com)who was able to activate it again (or told me that Bongwon Suh billsuh@gmail.com would take care of it), through it appears this didn't last long. I recommend you contact Ed and Bongwon (I'll cc them here), hopefully they will get the ball rolling again and make this project permanently open and active at the Labs. I found the Dashboard a very useful tool (through it could certainly be refined, I never figured out how to get raw data behind the graphs, which would have been very nice...).
Sumana, sorry for the late reply, I only just noticed this email (seems it got routed to my newsgroup folder which I don't check regularly). I looked into this again because of this on wiki message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Piotrus#wikidashboard:_403:_User_acc...
Cheers,
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
On 9/19/2013 4:51 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
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.
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