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, 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
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!
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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!
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Maggie Dennis, 16/05/2012 18:17:
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. :)
To care or to be able to do something with them? Anyway, they can create their accounts in any case, with the help of a sysop/bureaucrat/accountcreator.
Nemo
Thanks for the info. In the first session with the Wikipedia Student Club in UNAM, I have troubles for this issue. Regards,
2012/5/16 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com
Maggie Dennis, 16/05/2012 18:17:
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. :)
To care or to be able to do something with them? Anyway, they can create their accounts in any case, with the help of a sysop/bureaucrat/** accountcreator.
Nemo
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Sumana Harihareswara 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!
Hi.
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly.
There was some talk about adding a whitelist to a MediaWiki page via an extension (cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25000 and related SVN revisions). That would allow any local administrator to fix this without a bunch of paperwork and editing PHP and syncing it everywhere.
Another option would be to add a time guarantee (e.g., "if you submit your bug within two weeks of your conference/gathering/whatever, we'll have the exemption ready").
The few people (shell users) capable of fulfilling these requests really ought be doing other things, though. I'd go with the whitelist. The code's already written, even, it just needs to be pushed out to a Hacks extension or something: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/72959#c9219.
MZMcBride
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly.
Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc).
That will cut down a lot of time.
K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBridez@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly.
Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc).
That will cut down a lot of time.
Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still needed.
Nemo
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission.
:-/
Asaf
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_...
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBridez@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly.
Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc).
That will cut down a lot of time.
Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still needed.
Nemo
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There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for the Account creator permission : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_crea...
I don't know about other languages or projects.
Alex
2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission.
:-/
Asaf
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_...
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBridez@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to
get
resolved, even when filed properly.
Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc).
That will cut down a lot of time.
Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still needed.
Nemo
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Thanks, Alex! That was what I was looking for. :)
It is now mentioned in the instructions on Meta. :)
Cheers,
Asaf
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov < alexandrdmitriromanov@gmail.com> wrote:
There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for the Account creator permission :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_crea...
I don't know about other languages or projects.
Alex
2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really
use
the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission.
:-/
Asaf
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_...
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBridez@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to
get
resolved, even when filed properly.
Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc).
That will cut down a lot of time.
Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still needed.
Nemo
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Thanks to everyone who helped work on this documentation. I really appreciate it. Please distribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation and, within it, link to the relevant "becoming an account creator" pages on particular wikis.
Thanks.
Thanks!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Best_practices_in_organizing...
A.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Thanks to everyone who helped work on this documentation. I really appreciate it. Please distribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation and, within it, link to the relevant "becoming an account creator" pages on particular wikis.
Thanks.
Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
On 05/24/2012 06:15 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
Thanks, Alex! That was what I was looking for. :)
It is now mentioned in the instructions on Meta. :)
Cheers,
Asaf
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov < alexandrdmitriromanov@gmail.com> wrote:
There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for the Account creator permission :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_crea...
I don't know about other languages or projects.
Alex
2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really
use
the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1],
suggest
so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission.
:-/
Asaf
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_...
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