James & Monica, I have been an Account Creator <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator> in the past & am identified to WMF. Someone revoked that privilege last year because the last time that I used those rights was in May 2015. I plan to come to both Editing as Activism events at UW Bothell & think it would be good to get it the Account Creator role back because I think we will be stepping up Cascadia edit-a-thons & GLAM activities in 2017.
So https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice is the place to go for Geonotice banners? I was told to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Geonotice, but the request that I put there for the Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting did not get picked up. A response to my query why not indicating that after posting the Geonotice request, we should also notify [[WP:AN]] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard>. Yours, Peaceray -- Raymond F. Leonard, Jr. User:Peaceray <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray>Cascadia Wikimedians User Group <http://cascadia.wiki/> board member & president [email protected] (forwards to) [email protected] On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones <[email protected] > wrote: > James > Thanks for the quick response > > > You can’t lift the IP cap on account creation, but you can have “account > > creators” create accounts for other users with their desired username and > > an email address. All administrators are account creators; additional > > account creators can also be appointed (let me know if anyone needs to be > > appointed). > > > > Thanks I'll follow up, I may request to have my username (shameran81) > appointed for the event dates. > > That said, how have bigger events managed this? The rooms reserved hold > 60. > > > > > One way I’ve gotten around this issue is by encouraging people to sign up > > ahead of time. This is good if you’re working with a specific audience > > known ahead of time, but can be harder if you’re working with the general > > public. > > > > In principle, that's idea. I'll discuss with organizers. > > > > > Geonotice is good for advertising in watchlists; if you want to advertise > > through a banner that loads on other pages, I recommend CentralNotice: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice > > > > Thanks! > > Monika > > > > > > > On January 10, 2017 at 3:35:30 PM, Monika Sengul-Jones ( > > [email protected]) wrote: > > > > Cascadians, > > > > I would like to get the word out about Editing as Activism: Black > > WikiHistory Workshop and Edit-a-thon at UW Bothell to invite more > > Wikipedians to participate and guide new editors. > > > > Has anyone ever used Geonotice to automate talk page invitations? I am > > puzzled by it. Is this is old news? > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice > > > > Would love a quick chat if anyone has advice on this or another useful > > invitation method. > > > > Also -- any know-how here on how to lift the IP cap for user account > > creation? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Monika > > > > -- > > Monika Sengul-Jones > > www.monikasengul.com > > (206) 715-2320 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > > -- > Monika Sengul-Jones > www.monikasengul.com > (206) 715-2320 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
