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, this may be a good way to start. 2012/5/16 Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org>: > 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 of that restriction. The Foundation's Maggie Dennis > has written a quick HOWTO: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap > > and so please feel free to link to it in your outreach HOWTOs, event > planning checklists, and so on. Thanks, Maggie! > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
