[Foundation-l] only six new accounts per day per ip?

[Ragib Hasan]

Yes, that's exactly the problem ... with help from Bangladesh Open
Source Network, we are conducting FOSS camps all around the country,
and a session is dedicated to Wikipedia, where we talk about the
philosophy, and the newbies have a hands-on experience on creating
accounts, logging in, and editing articles. So, definitely we need a
workaround. There is a huge potential of editors coming from the 150
million population of Bangladesh ...  we need to help new users by all
means to get them started. If we just show them a canned demo of an
admin going in and creating an account for them, that won't help them
spreading the word to other people (non-attendees, friends etc) .

I'd love to have a solution to this, as we have more FOSS/Wikicamps
scheduled in the coming months.

--

Ragib


On 6/10/07, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> From my tech-laity view ....
>
> - One question: if those attendee need to learn how to create their
> accounts at first, giving them existing (created by a syosp) accounts
> might deprive them a good opportunity how to get involved into the
> project?
>
> Just a thought.
>

> On 6/11/07, Ragib Hasan <ragibhasan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, in a way, having this cap really hurts cases where people do not
> > have home Internet access, and must use their university labs or
> > cyber-cafes to access the Web. I assume the 6 accounts cap was put in
> > to fight socks, but it also stops genuine users from signing up. In
> > the case of Wikipedias with small number of contributors in countries
> > with low home-broadband penetration, getting new users sign up is
> > perhaps more important than fighting socks (which btw could be
> > prevented in many other ways).
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ragib
> >
> >
> > On 6/10/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hoi,
> > > Given that we REALLY need Single User Login, having these policies be
> > > specific for a particular wiki is not likely to survive. I hope that we have
> > > waited the longest time for the implementation of this so much desired
> > > functionality.
> > > Thanks,
> > >      GerardM
> > >
> > > On 6/10/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Maybe you could also file a bug request on bugzilla.wikimedia.org to
> > > > disable the maximum on your wiki, or set it on a higher number. But I
> > > > guess that requires community backup and a developer with some spare
> > > > time :)
> > > >
> > > > Lodewijk
> > > >
> > > > 2007/6/10, Dmcdevit <dmcdevit at cox.net>:
> > > > > Ragib Hasan wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you clarify which special page are you referring to? The special
> > > > > > admin-only pages in Media-wiki are:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Restricted special pages
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     * Grant or revoke bot status
> > > > > >     * Import pages
> > > > > >     * Make a user into a sysop
> > > > > >     * Unwatched pages
> > > > > >     * View deleted pages
> > > > > >     * Blockuser/Blockip
> > > > > >     * Rename user
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, how do I create account for another user?
> > > > > >
> > > > > Go to
> > > > > <http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup
> > > > >
> > > > > while you are logged in.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dominic
> > > > >
> > > > >
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Ragib Hasan
PhD Student
Dept of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
201 N Goodwin Avenue
Urbana IL 61801

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