Below is a message from a new user that I think should be discussed here:
-----Forward---- I don't know how this works, but I know some sites like Google News and CNN are partners with nytimes.com, which is frequently linked to from Wikipedia.org
Being a partner allows users to click on a link and go straight to the article, not having to sign-in or register from nytimes.com (which is free).
The partner code is nothing special (just some suffixes on a standard URI), in fact you can change the partner id in a url to anything and it will still work, however I am sure there are steps to be legitimate with nytimes.com.
Such a feature--being able to click and access and article without having to have an ID at nytimes.com--would be an advantage to both the non-nytimes.com users and those who happen to be at a foriegn computer when using Wikipedia, especially considering the importance of that paper and its hypertextual prevalence here.
Thank you, Ry Rivard