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

Thanks! http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Best_practices_in_organizing_a_Wikipedia_workshop&action=historysubmit&diff=38805&oldid=24788 A. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped work on this documentation. I really > apprec

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

Thanks to everyone who helped work on this documentation. I really appreciate it. Please distribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation and, within it, link to the relevant "becoming an account creator" pages on particular wikis. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Com

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

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

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

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

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

K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBride wrote: Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly. Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can

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

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its > scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get > resolved, even when filed properly. Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Th

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

Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people > create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, > ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created > from one IP address in a single day. But there's a

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

Thanks for the info. In the first session with the Wikipedia Student Club in UNAM, I have troubles for this issue. Regards, 2012/5/16 Federico Leva (Nemo) > Maggie Dennis, 16/05/2012 18:17: > > Clarification on this process was actually most recently requested by an >> en >> Wiki admin on the p

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

Maggie Dennis, 16/05/2012 18:17: Clarification on this process was actually most recently requested by an en Wiki admin on the principle that people who create their own accounts are more likely to care about them. :) To care or to be able to do something with them? Anyway, they can create the

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

Clarification on this process was actually most recently requested by an en Wiki admin on the principle that people who create their own accounts are more likely to care about them. :) Maggie On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > Generally, at UK outreach events, there has usual

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

Generally, at UK outreach events, there has usually been an enwiki admin or two around who can create accounts for people. Admins (and accountcreators) are not subject to account creation limits. On May 16, 2012 4:23 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" wrote: > When you're running an event, sometimes you

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

Sumana Harihareswara, 16/05/2012 17:23: When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created from one IP address in a single day. But ther

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

When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created from one IP address in a single day. But there's a way to ask for a temporary removal o