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Account creation throttle exemption for workshop on 2017-12-01
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Description

There will be a Wikidata workshop on 1st December 2017 in Prague. We are expecting newbies to come, hence I'm requesting a temporary exemption for creating accounts.

Duration: 2017-12-01 17:00 (UTC) - 2017-12-01 20:00 (UTC)
IP address: 86.49.24.0/21, 86.49.32.0/20, 86.49.48.0/24 (the venue is connected using dynamic IP addresses and we do not know the exact IP address that will be used at 1st December 2017)
Wikis: cswiki, wikidatawiki
Number of accounts: ~10

Event Timeline

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Urbanecm triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 28 2017, 8:08 AM
Urbanecm updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 393722 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Define throttle rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/393722

Urbanecm raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Nov 28 2017, 7:55 PM

Increasing prio, workshop is this week. Should be deployed tomorrow.

Change 393722 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Define throttle rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/393722

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-11-29T14:18:36Z] <zfilipin@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/throttle.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:393722|Define throttle rule (T181367)]] (duration: 00m 49s)