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Summer of Research 2011
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011>
‹ Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane> created the systems
infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and
analysis work.
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Do you have more info about this? It sounds like they're duplicating the
Toolserver, but it's hard to say without knowing more.
They need access to information not available on the toolserver. This
is just a single virtual machine that has mysql access to a database
replica.
- Ryan