Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

2012-05-24 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thanks, Alex! That was what I was looking for. :) It is now mentioned in the instructions on Meta. :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov < alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

2012-05-24 Thread J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for the Account creator permission : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator I don't know about other languages or projects. Alex 2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov > So, I often find myself doing out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

2012-05-24 Thread Asaf Bartov
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that

[Wikimedia-l] WMF to endorse a petition to the White House mandate free access to publicly funded research

2012-05-24 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Hi everybody, I wanted to give you the heads up that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning to endorse a petition to the White House to mandate open access to taxpayer-funded research. The petition is in line with previous open access declarations that we endorsed and is supported by a large numb

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Chapter Finances Survey due tomorrow (Fri, May 25th)

2012-05-24 Thread Narayanan, Divya
Dear Chapter Leaders, A quick reminder that we ask you to complete the Chapter Finances Survey (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Chapter_Finances_Survey) by Friday, May 25th (that's tomorrow). This information is absolutely crucial to the recommendation for the Board