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(a)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(a)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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