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
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).
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.
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
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
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@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
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
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 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@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
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
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 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@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
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 <%28206%29%20715-2320> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 <%28206%29%20715-2320> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
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 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@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
-- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 <%28206%29%20715-2320> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
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