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IP limit exemption for WTS 2024
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Requesting temporary lift of IP cap

The request is primarily to help with the edit rate limits; to increase 8 edits/minute for all newbies to 90 edits/minute for each participant. For account creation, some of us have the user right to create bulk accounts.

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KCVelaga created this task.

There was an email to security@ suggesting the IP was "blocked" for other reasons. See also T375524: Unblock 14.139.82.6 for WTS 2024 mini hackathon.

From that ticket, that seems to be primarily on enwiki...

JJMC89 subscribed.

Not a duplicate

Change #1077619 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anzx; author: Anzx):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] IP limit exemption for WTS 2024

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1077619

Change #1077619 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] IP limit exemption for WTS 2024

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1077619

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-03T07:50:35Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1077502|throttle.php: Remove expired throttle]], [[gerrit:1077619|IP limit exemption for WTS 2024 (T375794)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-03T07:53:49Z] <hashar@deploy2002> anzx, hamishz, hashar: Backport for [[gerrit:1077502|throttle.php: Remove expired throttle]], [[gerrit:1077619|IP limit exemption for WTS 2024 (T375794)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-03T07:59:16Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1077502|throttle.php: Remove expired throttle]], [[gerrit:1077619|IP limit exemption for WTS 2024 (T375794)]] (duration: 08m 41s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-03T08:03:41Z] <hashar> Ran mwscript resetAuthenticationThrottle.php --signup --ip 14.139.82.6 for metawiki, mediawikiwiki and wikidatawiki # T375794

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metawiki, mediawikiwiki and wikidatawiki can be used for creating multiple accounts