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
The most comprehensive way to resolve this issue would be to add a
feature that allows a trusted user, like a bureaucrat, to temporarily
lift this throttling for such events. I requested it here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36367
If anybody wants to try programming MediaWiki,
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
The most comprehensive way to resolve this issue would be to add a
feature that allows a trusted user, like a bureaucrat, to temporarily
lift this throttling for such events. I requested it here:
