AcademicAccess

Wikimedia Foundation projects AcademicAccess An authentication proxy to allow selected users to access third-party academic publishing sites Group: Platform Start: 2011-06 End: 2011-06 Team members: Ryan Lane Lead: Chad Horohoe

Rationale

There is a lot of high-quality content out there that is useful as references for the Wikimedia projects and their article-writing. Unfortunately, a good portion of this content is behind paywalled systems that do not allow the general public to access their content.

The idea is to build a system allowing authorized users to use their Wikimedia account credentials to access these third-party reference sites.

Additional documents

• User requirements: The Wikipedia Library on the English Wikipedia
• Specifications:
• Software design document:
• Test plan:
• Documentation plan:
• User interface design docs:
• Schedule:
• Task management:
• Release management plan:
• Communications plan:
• Status updates