That is pretty normal; it’s meant to be a temporary permission. I’ve restored your account creator permission.
Between you and Monika that should be sufficient for account creation needs. “Geonotice” and “Centralnotice” are technically two different things. Geonotices are local to English Wikipedia and show up in the watchlist; “sidewide” banners that you see on top of articles etc. are controlled via CentralNotice, which is, well, centrally controlled on Meta-Wiki (but you can limit it to specific wikis and specific geographic regions). On January 10, 2017 at 4:58:11 PM, Raymond Leonard ( [email protected]) wrote: 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 <%28206%29%20715-2320> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > > -- > Monika Sengul-Jones > www.monikasengul.com > (206) 715-2320 <%28206%29%20715-2320> > _______________________________________________ > 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
