On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Morten Warncke-Wang morten@cs.umn.edu 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?