[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: partnering with nytimes to avoid registration

[Daniel Mayer]

Below is a message from a new user that I think should be discussed here:

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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