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 request the accounts to be created by existing account creators at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator *--* *Haitham Shammaa* *Learning Strategist, Global South* *Wikimedia Foundation* *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Click the "edit" button now, and help us make it a reality!* On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Victor Grigas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinenjongo_High_School#Free_access_to_Wikipedia > > Their teacher has been helping them with this effort for one hour a week. > it's the only time that they have internet access. He told me: > > " > > > 1. **We started with registering everyone as editors on Wikipedia. > > This took a couple of sessions as there is a Wikipedia limit of 6 > > registrations from the same computer lab per day. > > > " > > Are there any admins who could change this limit to something more like the > size of a large classroom? These students are the only contributors to > isiXhosa Wikipedia and they are very excited to work on it. > > -- > > *Victor Grigas* > Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
