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[Bug] Incorrect number of temporary account creations permitted indicated in notice
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Create a temporary account from an IP
  • Log out from the temp account
  • Try to create another temp account

What happens?:
Message displayed to the user is: "Visitors to Wikipedia using your IP address have created 1 accounts in the last 24 hours, which is the maximum allowed in this time period. As a result, visitors using this IP address cannot create any more accounts at the moment."

What should have happened instead?:
The limit is 6 per 24 hours and 1 every ten minutes. The correct limits should be reported.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

Is this for English Wikipedia or other wikis (e.g. metawiki)?

For languages that have declension, replacing "24 hours" with $2 doesn't work. The number needs to be separated out from the noun, so "$2 hours". We need to change it on https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Acct_creation_throttle_hit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Acct_creation_throttle_hit this message override needs to be updated to accept the parameter $2

This probably affects many other wikis as well. Checked the same message on my home wiki and realized we’re also using an override without the parameter $2
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Acct_creation_throttle_hit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Acct_creation_throttle_hit this message override needs to be updated to accept the parameter $2

This probably affects many other wikis as well. Checked the same message on my home wiki and realized we’re also using an override without the parameter $2
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Acct_creation_throttle_hit

Fixed the dewiki message, but there are indeed ~100 other wikis affected per https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=%241&namespaces=8&title=Acct+creation+throttle+hit

Ideally there would be separate messages for regular accounts and temporary accounts: