[Wikimedia-l] Exemption to registrations on Xhosa Wikipedia

2013-09-09 Thread Victor Grigas
Hello everyone, I am in touch with a high school class in South Africa that has been writing Wikipedia Articles in isiXhosa. Some of the Wikipedians in the class: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IsiXhosa_Wikipedia_Competition_2013_at_Sinenjongo_High_School.jpg More about the school:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exemption to registrations on Xhosa Wikipedia

2013-09-09 Thread Sophie Österberg
This is so exciting, thank you for sharing this! I'll add this to the Education programs and projects around the world here; https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Projects_and_Programs *Be Bold! Sophie Österberg sosterb...@wikimedia.org* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exemption to registrations on Xhosa Wikipedia

2013-09-09 Thread Haitham Shammaa
I had a similar issue once in the past at a Wikipedia editing workshop. The easiest and most practical way is to request an 'account creator' [1] rights, if the they plan to run the project for a long time : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator or to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exemption to registrations on Xhosa Wikipedia

2013-09-09 Thread Victor Grigas
Thanks everyone! On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:33 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Yeah, sounds like they aren't on enWiki so will probably need to get it from stewards or request an IP exemption. If they are doing it in a computer lap an IP exemption is probably going to be the