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
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
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Raymond F. Leonard, Jr.
User:Peaceray
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray>Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
<http://cascadia.wiki/> board member & president
peaceray(a)cascadia.wiki (forwards to)
raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.monika(a)gmail.com
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
60.
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:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
Thanks!
Monika
On January 10, 2017 at 3:35:30 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones (
jones.monika(a)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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www.monikasengul.com
(206) 715-2320
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