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.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Pradeep Mohandas
<pradeep.mohandas(a)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 <ntandon(a)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
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