Sorry for the last-minute nature of this response: venue did not confirm IP until today.
Event runs from 1800 to 1930 UK time (UTC+1) Thursday 30th July
Per the venue, the IP impacted is: 89.36.114.94
20 people are expected at the event
We'll be using en.wiki and Commons
| Subject | Author | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK | Zabe | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +9 -0 |
Noting that this should be requested some time in advance per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap unless you can find someone who can deal with it on short notice.
Hi Johannes, yes, apologies for the late notice - with Wikimania and annual leave, this request came to my attention later than I would have liked. Is it possible to get it done on this occasion as a goodwill gesture?
Change #1319159 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK
Change #1319159 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-29T19:29:31Z] <zabe@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1319159|Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK (T433529)]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-29T19:31:31Z] <zabe@deploy1003> zabe: Backport for [[gerrit:1319159|Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK (T433529)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-29T19:36:19Z] <zabe@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1319159|Add throttle exemption for Black Cultural Archives UK (T433529)]] (duration: 06m 49s)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-29T19:37:40Z] <zabe> zabe@deploy1003:~$ mwscript-k8s --comment='T433529' --follow -- resetAuthenticationThrottle.php --wiki=aawiki --signup --ip=89.36.114.94