Clarification on this process was actually most recently requested by an en Wiki admin on the principle that people who create their own accounts are more likely to care about them. :)
Maggie
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Tom Morris bbtommorris@gmail.com wrote:
Generally, at UK outreach events, there has usually been an enwiki admin or two around who can create accounts for people. Admins (and accountcreators) are not subject to account creation limits. On May 16, 2012 4:23 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
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!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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