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

On 7/1/2011 11:19 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: *Academic publications authentication proxy* --- Chad Horohoe <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:%5Edemon> started a project whose goal is to allow selected Wikimedians to access third-party academic publishing sites to help with content verifiability <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability>. The authentication challenges this entails are not trivial; Ryan Lane <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane> is also involved in this project, particularly because of his previous experience with OpenID (which may be used as a mechanism for tying to CentralAuth). ^----------- This burns me up. It seems to me that organizations that charge $1000's of dollars for access to content should not be getting free publicity from organizations like Wikipedia. They deserve to vanish in obscurity, dry up and blow away in the winds of history. Governments pay $50,000 or $100,000 to have a research paper written, but they can't seem to find the $5 it would take to make the paper available for free indefinitely.