Maniphest T194666

IP unblock requested for 8-20 new accounts at University of Edinburgh event on 2018-05-16
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	Stinglehammer
	May 14 2018, 3:57 PM

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IP unblock requested for a Wikidata hackathon on Wednesday 16 May at University of Edinburgh to allow new accounts to be created an.
Potentially anywhere between 8 and 20 new users creating accounts on Wikipedia/Wikidata and being carefully shown how to edit Wikidata and use QuickStatements to edit Wikidata and Listeria to create Wikidata lists on Wikipedia subpages.
172.20.106.73* is the IP range for that room.

The time of the hackathon will be 1pm to 3pm GMT (Edinburgh) but an 08:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC should give us more flexibility. Thanks.

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	New throttle rule for University of Edinburgh	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+7 -0

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Stinglehammer created this task.May 14 2018, 3:57 PM

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Mbch331 added a project: Wikimedia-Site-requests.May 14 2018, 4:41 PM

@Stinglehammer The ip you provided, 172.20.106.73*, is a private one (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address#Private_addresses). We need public IP address/range. TO get it, go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ website from computers in the room of the event. I can't do anything without this info.

Also, as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap says, please next time create the ticket at least one week before the event :)

Aklapper renamed this task from IP unblock requested for 8-20 new accounts being created at University of Edinburgh event. to IP unblock requested for 8-20 new accounts at University of Edinburgh event on 2018-05-16.May 14 2018, 6:43 PM

Hi, yes, have looked into this a bit more with the university's network team.

It seems the public IP addressing side of things will depend on whether we connect the laptops to the network via our wireless network, or if we connect the devices to outlets in room 2.03 at 50 George Square, which will connect to the wired network.

We'd much prefer attendees to use their laptops on a wireless network. So as far as the wireless network is concerned Wikipedia will see a 192.41.x.x address in the range 192.41.128.1 to 192.41.131.250. Unfortunately allocation of IP addresses is random and in some cases users may find that they are sharing the same address . We can usually check the translated external address that they have
been allocated by typing 'my IP address' into google as you mention but this may be too late as attendees will be in the room at 1pm tomorrow and we will need the IP unblock in place for then.

Are you able to use the range 192.41.128.1 to 192.41.131.25?

Apologies for short notice. Would have done this sooner but was only notified of the room we were allocated yesterday.

Yes, we are. That is 192.41.128.0/22 - which match the WhoIS records and those IPs are connected to University of Edinburgh. Will create a rule.

Restricted Application added a project: User-Urbanecm. · View Herald TranscriptMay 15 2018, 10:39 AM

This is High priority - this SWAT week (well, even this SWAT window) is required.

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Change 433138 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] New throttle rule for University of Edinburgh

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/433138

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 15 2018, 10:45 AM

Urbanecm moved this task from Backlog to To deploy on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.May 15 2018, 10:45 AM

Urbanecm moved this task from Backlog to To deploy on the User-Urbanecm board.

I scheduled them for a window, but...it wasn't deployed from some reason. Sorry, can happen with those last minute requests.

Change 433138 abandoned by Urbanecm:
New throttle rule for University of Edinburgh

Reason:
Useless.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/433138

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