Description
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Progress | Niharika | T324492 Temporary accounts - MVP | |||
| Open | kostajh | T357776 [Epic] Mitigate abilities to abuse temporary account creation | |||
| Open | None | T357802 Prompt user to create a regular account after temp account creation rate limit trip |
Event Timeline
Note account creation itself is also rate limited and some guide may be provided if the IP can create no more accounts currently.
Maybe just block them?
At the high end (as in more account creation attempts) there are long term vandals/abusers (a.k.a. LTA's), editathons (scheduled mass gatherings of people editing WMF sites) and countries with limited number of IP's versus population (like some African countries - https://afrinic.net/ip-address-and-asn-allocations-in-africa). LTA's are blocked anyway and editathons usually have short ip rate limit exemptions. Also the difference between LTA's and editathons, is that LTA's go through many IP's (sometimes more than 10 per month), editathons do not. I do not know how the whole countries with limited number of IP's goes, I have no experience with it.
Was considering adding logged-out bots to the mix, but they do not frequently clear their cookies or change their IP's. Proxies might be in this list, but there are allready some blocked.
At the low end (as in less account creation attempts) there are schools and libraries. They also do not go through many IP's.