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