I am conducting a workshop during TED Summit in Banff, Canada on 29 June 2016. I expect around 40 participants to attend the 90 minute workshop. I'd like to get an IP exemption for the day so that all participants will be able to create their own accounts during the workshop. I do not yet know the IP address of the venue, but I can provide it to you the latest by 26 June 2016. The project page can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TED_Summit_2016_Edit-a-thon
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Throttling exemption for enwiki | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +7 -0 |
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90 minutes from what time? Could you provide us starting datetime with timezone? And could you give us projectes that should be affected? I think that enwiki but I'm not sure. Thanks.
Changing status to Stalled till all needed info (IP adress, date and time of start/end, expected number of accounts that'll be needed and projectes that should be affected by this exemption) will be known.
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@nethahussain: Please see the list in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap for all information that we need in order to proceed here. Thanks!
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The workshop is happening on 29 June, 2016 from 11:15 am to 12:45 pm MST. The location is The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada. The only project that would be affected is enwiki (although some participants may express interest for creating their first article in another language, I will instruct them to create their account on English Wikipedia). Once I know the IP address of the conference hall, I will comment here and let you know. The expected number of accounts is between 10 and 40.
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What's with the IP? We can't process this request if the IP won't be known (very) soon. Usualy a week is required to process this request.
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See above. We need the IP to process this request. If the IP will be known to 29 June 14:00 UTC I think that processing this request will be possible (last deploy window which can be used to process this request is 29 June 15:00-16:00 UTC and the patch should be scheduled before start of the window). Out of our deploy windows only urgent patches are deployed.
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I'm away during the last deployment window so somebody else will have to process this request.
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Sorry for being late, I couldn't find the IP address until today. The IP address is 74.3.135.213. Meanwhile, I got the update that only 18 participants are attending the event. I have received a temporary account creator flag for English Wikipedia. I guess it will be possible for me to manage the participants without needing an IP exemption as less people than expected are turning up. I now see that getting the IP exception is hard, so it is okay to close this task, as I can also use my account creator flag to get the new accounts for the participants. Thank you!
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I cannot deploy the change myself but if I understood @Dereckson 's answer in Z398 well he should do it. But if you don't want the exception anymore you can close this task yourself (by selecting Change status from Actions menu and selecting correct status) and nobody will complete this task.
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Change 296524 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm):
Throttling exeption for enwiki
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Mentioned in SAL [2016-06-29T15:49:03Z] <thcipriani@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/throttle.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:296524|Throttling exemption for enwiki (T138167)]] (duration: 00m 25s)
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The change was merged in time I think. I've closed this task only... Since https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138167#2414977 the change was merged and live.