On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)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.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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