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

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

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