[Labs-l] Access to tools-db for non-tools?

[Magnus Manske]

AFAIK, if your database name ends in "_p", it should be visible to
everyone; it is private to the tool otherwise.


On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Morten Wang <nettrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed on Friday that I cannot access tools-db from my user account,
> but can using my tool account.  Is this by design?
>
> The reason I ask is that I often prefer to keep my research work[1]
> separate from my tool work.  In this case I have a research task where I'd
> like to have a couple of database table dumps readily available.  While I
> could use a replica database server for this, it's not really needed, so I
> thought I could use tools-db.  Having access to a local database server for
> these kind of tasks would be really useful.
>
>
> Footnotes:
> 1: As my enwiki user page shows, I'm a PhD student in computer science
> with published papers about Wikipedia :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Morten
>
>
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