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Event coordinator

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If you are requesting this access for a special event, please include the date(s) of your event and a link to the event page if possible.
Newer editors will receive this permission temporarily for an event. Established editors involved with outreach may be granted access without expiration.
Editors who currently have account creator only for outreach purposes will usually have that permission removed when the event coordinator user group is granted.
If your account creations will use the Programs & Events Dashboard this access is no longer required unless you will also be manually flagging your attendees as "confirmed".

User:Utl jung

Hi there, thanks in advance for your help. I serve as the Wikipedian in Residence for University of Toronto Libraries and will be frequently coordinating instructional programming/edit-a-thons that involve mass account creation. I will additionally be requesting a lift on the IP cap 2-3 weeks in advance for most events; event coordinator permissions will help me confirm accounts for new page creation or image uploads. Utl jung (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Utl jung: did you know that if you use the Program & Events Dashboard for your event sign ups, you don't have to worry about asking for IP cap changes? — xaosflux Talk 16:38, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for this @Xaosflux:, I did see that! But I often facilitate in settings where I am not the main organiser, or where clean onboarding of every attendee through the program & events dashboard is more difficult in practice. Many participants come in mid-event and sometimes program structure is kept flexible to accommodate different availabilities. New-account limits on image uploads and article creation have been an issue more often than IP caps have, especially if some attendees come with accounts that they have made in the past but have not really used. Overall, I find myself in enough of a variety of situations as a facilitator that could be helped by coordinator permissions. Such permissions are to be exercised, of course, within reason. Utl jung (talk) 18:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Utl jung: agree! Having a flagged coordinator is still a good idea for an in-person event. That was mostly about perhaps not needing to bother with phab tickets for configuration changes. — xaosflux Talk 18:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux: Aah yes I hear you. Your reminder is appreciated 🙏 Utl jung (talk) 19:05, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Utl jung: when is your next event? — xaosflux Talk 03:47, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux: Tuesday, February 4th! Utl jung (talk) 03:26, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Adding event link here, thanks: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Toronto_Libraries/Black_History_Month_Edit-A-Thon_(4_February_2020) Utl jung (talk) 16:09, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done for event - if you have more events just post again (about 2 weeks before is good) if you keep getting this over and over we will just start making the expiration longer and longer! — xaosflux Talk 15:03, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Antineutrino291

Hi! We are organizing the 2nd version of a yearly edit-a-thon focused on women in surgery and engineering on January 31, 2020. The event page is Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Women-of-Vise-Spring-2020 for reference. We expect around 25-30 new participants so we'd be very grateful to get the temporary eventcoordinator status for myself and User:Emelina Vienneau. Thanks in advance! Antineutrino291 (talk) 18:02, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Icem4k

I am currently organizing Art+feminism and as such will have to create a lot of accounts very soon (March). I know I have some experience in the English Wikipedia but I am an active contributor to the Chichewa Wikipedia, Wikidata, Simple English which is going down and Wikimedia Commons. I helped in organizing the WikiGoesACCT in Uganda event, where the account creator rights have been used by Zenith4237. The option to grant users the confirmed status will be used by me carefully. - Chabota Kanguya (talk) 11:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done added for 2 months. @Icem4k: we can renew this as needed. Most of the A+F events should be using the Programs & Events Dashboard which would take care of most of your account creation needs (including bypassing the throttle and giving you some event metrics). Unless you will have directly supervised brand new editors that need to directly create an article (as opposed to doing a draft and having it checked over first) or uploading fair-use only file (free-use files don't require special access), adding +confirmed shouldn't be needed - though it can be helpful in certain cases. — xaosflux Talk 15:09, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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