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

[Asaf Bartov]

Thanks!

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Best_practices_in_organizing_a_Wikipedia_workshop&action=historysubmit&diff=38805&oldid=24788

  A.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at 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 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
>
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