Passwords / access control

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Difficult to do. Good, pre-made access control libraries exist, but incorporating them into LingView might require rethinking almost every element of how LingView works. A simple version (there's just one password to access the entire LingView site) might be doable in a week or three, but probably isn't worth doing. A complicated version (multiple users, different levels of privilege, different permissions for different texts) would probably take a couple months. Getting the password/access-control system to work both online and offline is another challenge, although maybe we'll decide that it only matters for online.

Not important for most South and Central American languages, whose speakers generally care more about making sure they can access their data than keeping outsiders from seeing it. Very important for most North American languages, whose speakers generally care a lot about controlling outsiders' access to their language.