There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
Nina nina.wikipedia@gmail.com
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
I'm not sure I understand this issue. Is there a problem with more than 15 people registering a new account from the same IP address within a specific time period - and where is that problem recorded/explained?
Thanks, Mike
On 28 Oct 2011, at 23:36, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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I heard from people doing workshops that more than 15 people can´t register in Wikipedia at the same time in one place with one IP.
Nina nina.wikipedia@gmail.com
Den 29. okt. 2011 kl. 00:39 skrev Michael Peel:
I'm not sure I understand this issue. Is there a problem with more than 15 people registering a new account from the same IP address within a specific time period - and where is that problem recorded/explained?
Thanks, Mike
On 28 Oct 2011, at 23:36, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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This is a config setting that can be changed per wiki but currently requires shell access if I recall correctly. Perhaps it could be made something that any admin can set.
Sam.
On Oct 28, 2011 3:37 PM, "Tomasz Ganicz" polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people
trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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Hi,
Last week, I explored this issue, in connection with a wiki academy we had at NIT, Calicut. After chatting with stewards, the recommendation was to use http://toolserver.org/~acc/ to request account creation. While I was assured most requests will be handled in one hour, my experience did not match for that event.
Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India http://wikimedia.in
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
This is a config setting that can be changed per wiki but currently requires shell access if I recall correctly. Perhaps it could be made something that any admin can set.
Sam.
On Oct 28, 2011 3:37 PM, "Tomasz Ganicz" polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people
trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2011/10/29 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
We ask people who want to participate in workshop to register before, but indeed it is really disturbing.
We do the same. Bilby created this handout which we give to workshop attendees before the session.
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Creating_an_Account.pdf
We usually end up with a few attendees who couldnt figure out how to create an account, and we help them through the process on the day.
-- John Vandenberg
If you're an admin you can send as many accounts as you want a temporal pass so they can log in the day of the workshop.
I'm an admin on the wiki, so I usually ask people who don't have an account to provide an email address or to come early to the classroom to get a username easily.
You just have to go to [[Special:Login]] while logged in. Then, you go to register a new account and there you'll see a bos that lets you send a new account via email.
On 10/28/11, Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
Nina nina.wikipedia@gmail.com
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We ran into this several times in our U.S. pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program. The limit seems to be no more than 6 accounts can be created in a 24-hour time period per IP address, but I've been unsuccessful at finding any place where that's actually documented on-wiki. We get around this by pinging one of the [[Wikipedia:Account creator]]s and asking for help, or like Alhen says, any admin.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Alhen alhen.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
If you're an admin you can send as many accounts as you want a temporal pass so they can log in the day of the workshop.
I'm an admin on the wiki, so I usually ask people who don't have an account to provide an email address or to come early to the classroom to get a username easily.
You just have to go to [[Special:Login]] while logged in. Then, you go to register a new account and there you'll see a bos that lets you send a new account via email.
On 10/28/11, Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
There is a problem with registration when there are more than 15 people trying to do on the same IP. When people have workshops this is a real problem. Is there any way to solve it?
Nina nina.wikipedia@gmail.com
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Alhen, 29/10/2011 00:52:
I'm an admin on the wiki, so I usually ask people who don't have an account to provide an email address or to come early to the classroom to get a username easily.
You just have to go to [[Special:Login]] while logged in. Then, you go to register a new account and there you'll see a bos that lets you send a new account via email.
At WMI last workshop we just logged in with a sysop account and then we made everyone register their own account from there; the interface is the same, there's just a "reason" field (added recently) and obviously they'll have to login. Nobody had problems with it. Otherwise, there's plenty of sysops and accountcreators who can do it for you beforehand, or you can request such rights yourself (en.wiki has a process fot it).
LiAnna Davis, 29/10/2011 00:58:
We ran into this several times in our U.S. pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program. The limit seems to be no more than 6 accounts can be created in a 24-hour time period per IP address, but I've been unsuccessful at finding any place where that's actually documented on-wiki.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAccountCreationThrottle
Nemo
Because this is a recurring question, I've created a help page about it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation I hope it helps. It's already quite verbose, so I've kept it generic enough and avoided all edge cases and solutions. This is really not a problem, you just have to know about it; in my chapter no problem has ever occured with it in the last 4-5 years (ok, it's more difficult if you're not a sysop, but only a bit). ;-)
Nemo
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Because this is a recurring question, I've created a help page about it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation
Very useful.
Thanks
Arjuna Rao Chavala