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Lift account registration on en.wikipedia for 13th June 2017
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Please could the account registration limit be lifted for the following addresses

  • 130.209.6.43
  • 130.209.6.40
  • 130.209.6.41

People will be creating accounts as part of an editathon at a university in Scotland. Sorry for the short notice, we were anticipating a small number of participants and it has been *much* more popular than we expected.

  • Start: 2017-06-13 08:30 (UTC+1)
  • End: 2017-06-13 11:30 (UTC+1)
  • Expected number of participants: up to 30
  • Effected wikis: en.wp primarily, possibly some editing from ga.wp, cy.wp, and gd.wp

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Lift IP throttle for Editathon (13 June 2017)operations/mediawiki-configmaster+12 -0
Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

Richard_Nevell_WMUK created this task.Jun 9 2017, 3:17 PM
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Dereckson triaged this task as High priority.Jun 9 2017, 3:19 PM
Dereckson moved this task from Backlog to Config - to process on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.
Dereckson subscribed.

To be processed Monday.

Richard_Nevell_WMUK awarded a token.Jun 9 2017, 3:41 PM

Thank you!

Susan.nls awarded a token.Jun 9 2017, 3:43 PM

Thank you! Here's a baby tequila for the weekend.

gerritbot subscribed.Jun 9 2017, 5:24 PM

Change 358056 had a related patch set uploaded (by Framawiki; owner: Framawiki):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Lift IP throttle for Editathon (13 June 2017)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/358056

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 9 2017, 5:24 PM
Framawiki moved this task from Config - to process to To deploy on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Jun 9 2017, 5:27 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jun 12 2017, 6:40 PM

Change 358056 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Lift IP throttle for Editathon (13 June 2017)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/358056

Stashbot subscribed.Jun 12 2017, 6:46 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-06-12T18:46:04Z] <thcipriani@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/throttle.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:358056|Lift IP throttle for Editathon (13 June 2017)]] T167517 (duration: 00m 41s)

Framawiki closed this task as Resolved.Jun 12 2017, 7:06 PM
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Framawiki added subscribers: thcipriani, Framawiki.

+ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/358422/2
Deployed, and thanks @thcipriani

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