Clarifying that this is for en.wikipedia and bn.wikipedia after asking in irc.

<p858snake|l> Hmundol: the wikimedia.in wiki doesn't appear to be hosted by the foundation
<Hmundol> it's the Wikimedia India Chapter's website.
<Hmundol> it's hosted by WM-Switzerland
<p858snake|l> yes, but it doesn't appear to be hosted by the foundation (not all chapter websites are)
<p858snake|l> so we can't do site configs for them, you will need to contact your local wiki tech team
<p858snake|l> unless you want the limits raised somewhere else
<Hmundol> no, but this config setting changes are not to edit wikimedia.in but to edit en-wp...
<Hmundol> and bengali wikipedia (bn-wp)

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

If this is not easily possible, do you know any administrators on the English or bn wikipedia that will be around at the event? They will be able to create the accounts logged in through their own account and send a password by email to the user accounts created - this bypasses the 6 accounts/IP/day.

They will then be able to create a global account using SUL and login to the other wikipedias (including bn and en).

Alternatively, you could request the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator right, which allows you to bypass the 6 users/IP/day limit too - but if you want the users to have the experience of creating their own accounts, then you need a technical change from the devs.

hisham wrote:

thanks for your suggestions. explored both. would prefer neither of these because neither allows newbies to actually create their own accounts? as i mentioned, this is an editing workshop for newbies and we will be going into some detail on how to edit, etc. it would not quite be the same thing if we create user accounts for them instead of them doing it themselves.

Roan has already done this, but must have forgot to close out the bug.

01:32 logmsgbot: catrope synchronized wmf-config/CommonSettings.php 'Add account creation throttle increase for bug 33900'

hisham wrote:

thanks! here's wishing the folks that are doing the workshops good luck!

hisham wrote:

Hi

Can someone help out urgently on this pls. The IP address is actually 124.30.195.211

Can you please do the config change for this IP address please? The workshop is actually on right now.

Thanks

You should probably follow [[mw:Help:Mass account creation]] rather than relying on config changes.

Changed the IP address per comment 6.