Sumana Harihareswara, 16/05/2012 17:23:

When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created from one IP address in a single day. But there's a way to ask for a temporary removal of that restriction. The Foundation's Maggie Dennis has written a quick HOWTO:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap

and so please feel free to link to it in your outreach HOWTOs, event planning checklists, and so on. Thanks, Maggie!

Personally I don't like such requests to sysadmins, they're usually an unneeded hassle for everyone, but this how-to nicely fills a gap left by the more general how-to on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation

Nemo