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Hello everyone, I am sorry for this sudden request. Today and tomorrow we are organizing a workshop in a high school in a remote village near Boyolali, Central Java. Unfortunately, we were not aware of the IP cap of 6 accounts per IP per day. It ended so many students could not create accounts in today's event, but I hope the same problem will not happen for the tomorrow's event.

This is a request for temporary lift of the IP cap.

  1. The event time frame: 21 July 2017 at 08.15 - 14.15 (UTC+7)
  2. The IPs to allow: 117.74.121.18 (local teachers not sure about the IPs, but this IP appeared on Javanese Wikipedia during today's event asking for account creation; the workshop takes place in a computer lab.)
  3. The expected number of people to attend the event: 125 pupils (5 classes)
  4. The list of wikis: jv.wikipedia.org & id.wikipedia.org
  5. User pages: User:Wirjadisastra & User:Notanotheramy, we are not discussing it on wiki page

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make tomorrow's event running as planned. Thank you so much!

Event Timeline

The IP WHOIS data does not confirm or deny being that of the school. If you could ask the school IT department just to be sure we'd appreciate it.

The school's answer is that they are using DHCP. I'm sorry if that answer is not helpful.

Looking at the http://whois.domaintools.com/117.74.121.18, it looks like the site shows the local internet service provider.

Urbanecm subscribed.

Can (and will) be done in today's EU SWAT window.

Change 366529 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add new throttle rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/366529

The school may use local provider. If https://whatismyipaddress.com/ or similar tool shows 117.74.121.18... :). To be sure they do not have dynamic IP address I've raised the IP cap for the whole provider's range (117.74.120.0/21).

Change 366529 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add new throttle rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/366529

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-07-20T13:12:37Z] <zfilipin@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/throttle.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:366529|Add new throttle rule (T171146)]] (duration: 00m 48s)