Increasing account creation threshold
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| − | There are cases when the Wikimedia Foundation or others will host events that have a tendency of creating a large amount of new account requests during a short window of time. | + | There are cases when the Wikimedia Foundation or others will host events that have a tendency of creating a large amount of new account requests during a short window of time from a single IP or a few IPs. The IP [[MetaWikipedia:Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap|can be effectively white listed to be excluded from rate limiting]]. This can easily be done if you add an '''$wmfThrottlingExceptions''' array in '''throttle.php''' (operations/mediawiki-config.git / wmf-config / throttle.php) |
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| − | If the | + | If the IP is not known then you can also set '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAccountCreationThrottle wgAccountCreationThrottle]''' to a value higher then '''0''' |
An example of this would be as follows in '''CommonSettings.php''' | An example of this would be as follows in '''CommonSettings.php''' | ||
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Revision as of 07:55, 19 October 2012
There are cases when the Wikimedia Foundation or others will host events that have a tendency of creating a large amount of new account requests during a short window of time from a single IP or a few IPs. The IP can be effectively white listed to be excluded from rate limiting. This can easily be done if you add an $wmfThrottlingExceptions array in throttle.php (operations/mediawiki-config.git / wmf-config / throttle.php)
$wmfThrottlingExceptions[] = array(
'from' => '2012-10-06T00:00 +0:00',
'to' => '2012-10-06T23:59 +0:00',
'IP' => '12.183.19.7',
'dbname' => array( 'enwiki', 'commonswiki' ),
'value' => '50',
);
If the IP is not known then you can also set wgAccountCreationThrottle to a value higher then 0
An example of this would be as follows in CommonSettings.php
if ( $wgDBname == 'idwiki' ) {
# Account creation throttle disabled for outreach event
# Contact: Siska Doviana <serenity@gmail.com>
if ( time() > strtotime( '2008-08-08T08:00 +7:00' )
&& time() < strtotime( '2008-08-08T19:00 +7:00' ) )
{
$wgAccountCreationThrottle = 300;
}
}
