Hello Everyone,
Good day!
When we had our first official out of town outreach project in Naga City, about 300 km south of Manila, we encountered a problem when 50+ students, librarians and professors attempt to create an account with the Bikol Wikipedia. Apparently it only allows 6 applications per IP in 24 hours.
Is there a creative way to have not experience the same issue in our future outreach projects? Say one school has one public IP address but many attempt to register?
Another, we would like to ask if we can have a possibility to have an client software that can perform to do sandbox editing for those who wants to learn to edit Wikipedia but offline?
There will be places we would visit that has computers with no stable internet connection but willing to contribute to Wikipedia. Say edit and export it as xml and then upload that article in Wikipedia in bulk?
Your inputs are valuable to us.
2012/7/2 Butch Bustria butch@wikimedia.org.ph:
Is there a creative way to have not experience the same issue in our future outreach projects? Say one school has one public IP address but many attempt to register?
The best solution that you currently have is this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap
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Thanks for that info. We will do that thing in the future.
Hopefully there could be a development of an offline sandbox for Wikipedia starters. Developing countries need those especially in areas with little, or no stable internet connection.
2012/7/2 Butch Bustria butch@wikimedia.org.ph:
Hopefully there could be a development of an offline sandbox for Wikipedia starters. Developing countries need those especially in areas with little, or no stable internet connection.
Can you open an enhancement request in Bugzilla about this, please?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
On 02/07/12 18:56, Butch Bustria wrote:
Thanks for that info. We will do that thing in the future.
Hopefully there could be a development of an offline sandbox for Wikipedia starters. Developing countries need those especially in areas with little, or no stable internet connection.
You can use a local mediawiki install as sandbox.
Le 03/07/12 00:41, Platonides a écrit :
You can use a local mediawiki install as sandbox.
Yeah lets revive the MediaWiki on a stick project :)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_on_a_stick
I hope it will be developed for use of an average person who simply just want to create an article offline and on the go and then upload it once it is complete.
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