[Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

[Sumana Harihareswara]

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 at 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_creator
>>
>> I don't know about other languages or projects.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov <abartov at 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_creator.22