Hey James,
I wanted to check in about the account creation status -- thanks for giving me that privledge a while back, but I am having some difficulties seeing where I can enroll folks.
I went to test it at Special:CreateAccount
Is this where to go?
but it looks like my IP address was blocked -- despite being logged in.
Something about a dog - rapper vandal-!!?? I would attach a screenshot but the file is too big. This is the message I got "Account creation error
Account creation from IP addresses in the range *2607:FB90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32*, which includes your IP address (*2607:fb90:2786:be29:80b4:8d9c:c05e:eed2*), has been blocked by Graham87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87.
The reason given by Graham87 is *Disruptive editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Dog and rapper vandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Dog_and_rapper_vandal*
Return to Main Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
I'm at home now, I'm not sure if I will be blocked at UW today. I hope not! Can you help me and Peaceray know that we're in the right place to create accounts for new users?
We'll have 45 participants today many who didn't create accounts in advance.
Thanks for the last minute help!
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Monika Sengul-Jones < jones.monika@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey James,
I wanted to check in about the account creation status -- thanks for giving me that privledge a while back, but I am having some difficulties seeing where I can enroll folks.
I went to test it at Special:CreateAccount
Is this where to go?
but it looks like my IP address was blocked -- despite being logged in.
Something about a dog - rapper vandal-!!?? I've attached a screenshot.
I'm at home now, I'm not sure if I will be blocked at UW today. Can you help me and Peaceray ensure we're in the right place to create accounts?
We'll have 45 participants today many who didn't create accounts in advance.
Thanks for the last minute help!
Monika
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
While "Centralnotice" is a more powerful tool than “Geonotice” (since it reaches many more non-hardcore people), it is limited in its geographical use; last I checked it was only able to target a whole country, not a particular region of a country.
So until that technology is fixed (there is a bug filed somewhere), the only option for Centralnotice is to launch it as a nation-wide campaign, if people have the energy to put that together.
This has been done in the past for campaigns like Wikipedia Day, the Great American Wiknic, and Asian History Month, but it would require some effort.
Thanks, Pharos
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:02 PM, James Hare james.hare@wikidc.org wrote:
That is pretty normal; it’s meant to be a temporary permission. I’ve restored your account creator permission.
Between you and Monika that should be sufficient for account creation needs.
“Geonotice” and “Centralnotice” are technically two different things. Geonotices are local to English Wikipedia and show up in the watchlist; “sidewide” banners that you see on top of articles etc. are controlled
via
CentralNotice, which is, well, centrally controlled on Meta-Wiki (but
you
can limit it to specific wikis and specific geographic regions).
On January 10, 2017 at 4:58:11 PM, Raymond Leonard ( raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com) wrote:
James & Monica,
I have been an Account Creator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator in the past
& am
identified to WMF. Someone revoked that privilege last year because the last time that I used those rights was in May 2015. I plan to come to
both
Editing as Activism events at UW Bothell & think it would be good to
get it
the Account Creator role back because I think we will be stepping up Cascadia edit-a-thons & GLAM activities in 2017.
So https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice is the place to go for Geonotice banners? I was told to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Geonotice, but the request that I put there for the Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting did not get picked up. A response to my query why not indicating that after posting the Geonotice request, we should
also
notify [[WP:AN]] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard .
Yours, Peaceray -- Raymond F. Leonard, Jr. User:Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PeacerayCascadia Wikimedians User Group http://cascadia.wiki/ board member & president peaceray@cascadia.wiki (forwards to) raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones < jones.monika@gmail.com
wrote:
James Thanks for the quick response
You can’t lift the IP cap on account creation, but you can have
“account
creators” create accounts for other users with their desired
username
and
an email address. All administrators are account creators;
additional
account creators can also be appointed (let me know if anyone needs
to
be
appointed).
Thanks I'll follow up, I may request to have my username (shameran81) appointed for the event dates.
That said, how have bigger events managed this? The rooms reserved
hold
One way I’ve gotten around this issue is by encouraging people to
sign
up
ahead of time. This is good if you’re working with a specific
audience
known ahead of time, but can be harder if you’re working with the
general
public.
In principle, that's idea. I'll discuss with organizers.
Geonotice is good for advertising in watchlists; if you want to
advertise
through a banner that loads on other pages, I recommend
CentralNotice:
Thanks!
Monika
On January 10, 2017 at 3:35:30 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones ( jones.monika@gmail.com) wrote:
Cascadians,
I would like to get the word out about Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Workshop and Edit-a-thon at UW Bothell to invite more Wikipedians to participate and guide new editors.
Has anyone ever used Geonotice to automate talk page invitations? I
am
puzzled by it. Is this is old news?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice
Would love a quick chat if anyone has advice on this or another
useful
invitation method.
Also -- any know-how here on how to lift the IP cap for user account creation?
Many thanks
Monika
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