I evade account creation by always making them log in first...
Periodically, with a roomful of users, we'll get told that an edit has been
"throttled"; no further details, I think. It seems to happen with one or at
most two editors at a time out of a dozen, but it can happen to different
people later on. This happened several times in a couple of weeks in the
summer (I only started workshops in June), and then occasionally since -
including yesterday. I originally assumed it was related to external-link
additions by new users, but I've seen it for no-link sandbox edits as well.
My guess is that this entails something to do with checking for multiple
edits from the same IP at once, but I don't know if this is actually the
reason, or if it can be disabled/whitelisted.
(It's the one I give, though! Corrections gratefully appreciated)
- Andrew.
On 13 Oct 2012 17:25, "Philippe Beaudette" <philippe(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As it is this combined with the "throttling
feature" made for
quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an
introduction to editing.
By "throttling feature", do you mean the account creation
restrictions? If so, you know there are ways around that, right?
Email me offlist, so as not to clutter the list, and I'll give you a
pointer.
If you mean something different, disregard :)
pb
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