On 12/21/11, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 Sudhanwa. > > A bot enabled system would be an ideal approach. Some of the members > actively involved in Community outreach activities could be given > authorization to request for an authorization on the day of/before the > academy. > > Subha > > On 21 December 2011 15:50, Vickram Crishna <vvcris...@radiophony.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar < >> sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Probably some bot mechanism will work better. >>> People may not know the IP address from the venue before they start >>> working. >>> >>> Just setup a page where such IPs can be put up and a bot checks them >>> every 1-2 hours or so and enables IPs for 3-4 days. Authorisations for >>> specific users who are co-ordinating the event can be given well in >>> advance to add such IP entries. >>> >>> That will help reduce communication and delay due to time zone related >>> things. >>> >> >> This will be the best approach. Pradeep and Pranav (Kundan and I were >> present, among others) had faced exactly this problem at the first attempt >> to run the WikiAcademy in Mumbai. For a newbie academy, it is at least an >> hour or so before one gets around to talking about setting up new >> accounts. >> >> >> >>> Regards >>> -Sudhanwa >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Pradeep Mohandas >>> <pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > hi Phillipe, >>> > >>> > How much lead time would you need to enable this? Given that India and >>> > US are in opposite sides of the world - you guys maybe sleeping while >>> > we request an unblock. >>> > What venues can we request an unblock - en email to you? On wiki-tech >>> IRC? >>> > >>> > Pradeep >>> > Handheld >>> > >>> > On 21/12/2011, Nitika <ntan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> but I wanted to be sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account >>> >>> creations per day, if you let me know what day you're doing >>> something. :) >>> >>> >>> >>> That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach... >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> Hey Phillipe, >>> >> >>> >> I am now aware that there is a possibility of releasing an IP from >>> >> this >>> >> rule. But I learnt this the hard way! I sat through an outreach >>> >> session >>> >> where we encountered blocking of IP and the participants were very >>> >> disappointed because they could not create their usernames. There is >>> another >>> >> mail from Subhashish which echoes similar experience. >>> >> >>> >> By way of working on this document and putting together small tips >>> >> like >>> >> these will make sure that others don't go through this pain. I'd >>> encourage >>> >> everyone to put their thoughts/learnings here so that all of us can >>> benefit >>> >> out of it and make our outreach sessions more effective. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks >>> >> Nitika >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Pradeep Mohandas >>> > How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! >>> web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in >>> Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Vickram >> Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > * > > ସୁ ଭ > > * > > * S u b h a * > > *ଓଡ଼ିଆଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ* > > *O d i a W i k i M a i l i n g l i s > t*<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or> > <http://facebook.com/subhashishp> > <http://twitter.com/subhashishp><http://or.wikipedia.org> >
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