[Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

On 12/21/11, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish at 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 <vvcrishna at radiophony.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <
>> sudhanwa.com at 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 at 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 at 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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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
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