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I will be conducting Edit-a-thon At Two Colleges in Latur, Maharashtra, India. As a part of Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha’s activities to promote the use of Marathi on wikis. I understand it’s really late to ask for something like this but, I couldn’t get all the necessary details before to convey it here. Thanks in advance.

Details of which are as follows -
Date - 16th March 2018
Time - 9am to 6pm (9.00hrs to 18.00hrs) IST
IP of Rajarshri Shahu College - 103.25.155.186
No. of Participants - 30
List of wiki's - Marathi Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Commons

Date - 17th March 2018
Time - 9am to 6pm (9.00hrs to 18.00hrs) IST
IP of Dayanand College - 103.216.147.34
No. of Participants - 35
List of wiki's - Marathi Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Commons

My Username – sureshkhole https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/pb5

Event Timeline

Urbanecm triaged this task as High priority.
Urbanecm subscribed.

According to Wikimedia Site requests triaging rules this is high priority because it must be completed in this SWAT week.

Change 418875 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] New throttle rule, clean expired rules

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/418875

Don't worry, this is doable in regular deployment windows. I'm sure we can make this resolved till your event.

Recapitulation:

  • From 2018-03-16T8:00 +5:30
  • To 2018-03-17T19:00 +5:30
  • IPs: '103.25.155.186', '103.216.147.34'
  • Wikis: 'mrwiki', 'enwiki', 'commonswiki'
  • New limit: 50

The limit is number of new accounts from a single IP within 24 hours period. If you think anything is incorrect, please tell me soonly.

Change 418875 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] New throttle rule, clean expired rules

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/418875

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-03-15T13:09:50Z] <zfilipin@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/throttle.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:418875|New throttle rule, clean expired rules (T189442)]] (duration: 01m 15s)

Deployed, your throttle rule should be active during your event as stated in my recapitulation.