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

[J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov]

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
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38:
> >
> >  On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBride<z at mzmcbride.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its
> >>> scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to
> get
> >>> resolved, even when filed properly.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we
> >> just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc
> >> etc).
> >>
> >> That will cut down a lot of time.
> >>
> >
> > Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still
> > needed.
> >
> > Nemo
> >
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