Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Programs & Events Dashboard

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:28 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: If you are one of the facilitators for a program or course on Programs & Events Dashboard, there will be a button to "Enable account requests" on the home tab. Once you enable account requests, there are two ways to use the feature. A user who follows the enrollment link and is not logged in will have the option to request an account by entering their email address and desired username. (The Dashboard will verify that the username is available before they can submit the request.) Then, the facilitator will be able to see a message when they view the program page, saying that there is a requested account waiting to be created. They can click to approve it — at which point, the Dashboard will create the account (and MediaWiki will email them the temporary password), and also add that user as an editor for that program. A facilitator can also create a new account (and add it to the program) directly, by entering an email and desired username on the Editors tab. This is useful especially for in-person events like editathons, so that those without accounts can get set up immediately upon arriving (rather than needing to follow a link on their own computer). How it works behind the scenes is that the facilitator or Dashboard admin who clicks to create the account will attempt to do the account creation action through OAuth with their own account (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Meredithdrum ), but if they cannot do so because of the IP limit, the account will be created by User:OutreachDashboardBot instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/OutreachDashboardBot The feature can also be enabled by default for an entire campaign. We built the initial account creation feature for Art+Feminism 2018, but this year, we added the OutreachDashboardBot fallback so event organizers to request Account Creator rights (which is what most people running an Art + Feminism event did in 2018). -Sage