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

[Maggie Dennis]

Clarification on this process was actually most recently requested by an en
Wiki admin on the principle that people who create their own accounts are
more likely to care about them. :)

Maggie

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Tom Morris <bbtommorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally, at UK outreach events, there has usually been an enwiki admin or
> two around who can create accounts for people. Admins (and accountcreators)
> are not subject to account creation limits.
> On May 16, 2012 4:23 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <sumanah at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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!
> >
> > --
> > Sumana Harihareswara
> > Engineering Community Manager
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
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Maggie Dennis
Community Liaison
WikimediaFoundation.org