On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 15:13, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: => Credo has generously offered a large number of additional accounts (up > to 400 additional ones). The process that I used for the first batch > was pretty clunky and time-consuming, so I've been using this as an > opportunity to look into better strategies for Wikimedia to interface > with external databases like Credo. As part of his contract work for > the Wikimedia Foundation, User:^demon is currently evaluating what it > would take to build a standard technical interface between Wikimedia > and information providers (starting with an evaluation of EZproxy, a > commonly used but unfortunately proprietary proxy for external > databases). This is a slow-burn project, so I don't expect that we'll > be able to find a solution quickly, but I hope we can keep moving this > along steadily, as I think it could enable many more partnerships with > information providers. > > In the short term, if someone wants to volunteer running a process to > get an additional batch of user accounts (I need a spreadsheet of home > wikis, e-mail addresses and user names, and enforcement of some > reasonable minimum requirements like edit counts), I'd be more than > happy to relay the final list to Credo and get those accounts created. > That'd be easier than trying to identify and re-allocate unused > accounts (which we can always do later if we run out of free ones). > Anyone up for volunteering to run a process for an additional, say, > 200 accounts? > > - - - > > Is anyone volunteering to organize the process for giving away these > accounts? The September discussion stalled in lack of consensus about > the parameters, but nobody actually stepped up to take this forward. > Again, I can't spend a huge amount of time on this, but if someone > volunteers to generate a list of usernames using whichever process is > deemed acceptable, I'm happy to move it forward. > I'd be willing to help organize the names. It's just a question of coming up with some sensible criteria, so I'll restart the discussion about that on the previous talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts
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