Hi Daniel, The usual procedure is explained here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Six-account_limit
Normally to request a temporary lift of the IP cap, they should file a task as explained on that page. There are some quick workarounds, like creating accounts with smartphones. Cheers, Micru On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Daniel Mietchen < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > I was just pinged by a Wikidata hackathon in Suriname > (cf. https://www.spangmakandra.com/big-data-seminar-suriname ) > that they can't edit Wikidata any more - see also > https://twitter.com/twitferry/status/851907389087502338 . > We are musing that this may be due to an IP ban, since more than six > new accounts were registered from the same IP (186.179.xxx.xx). > Can anyone help sort this out quickly, so that the event can move on? > Thanks, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
