Wikipedia:Account creator
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This page in a nutshell: The account creator permission allows users to create accounts for other editors without restriction and is granted to users who are active in the account request process or real world outreach that requires them to exceed normal account creation restrictions. |
The account creator user right grants access to a tool which permits trusted Wikipedia contributors to make a large number of accounts for other people who request them.
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Account creators' abilities
Accounts with the account creator user right have the technical ability to perform the following actions:
- Create more than six accounts in a 24-hour period.
- Override the "anti-spoof" check and create accounts that are similar to accounts that already exist (the 'override-antispoof' flag).
- Override the "blacklist" check and create accounts that are otherwise blocked by the title blacklist (the 'tboverride-account' flag).
Becoming an account creator
The account creator flag may be granted to users who are either:
- already active and experienced in the request an account process (ACC) and so are identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, or
- involved in the Education Program or other outreach work where they have a need to create accounts without restriction.
If the user right is requested due to involvement with the request an account process, admins on the Account Creation Tool ([1] for a list of tool admins) should be contacted before the account creator flag is granted. Typically, users are expected to correctly handle many requests and have hit the six (6) account rate limit before requesting the flag. Requests for the flag can be made at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator.
Other information
Per this 2013 request for comment, the use of the Account Creator permission was clarified as extending to "Active account creators" in both the ACC process and the education program, "while they are performing their duties." In addition to unlimited account creating, users carrying the account creator flag are expressly allowed to use any of the technical abilities included with this user right at their own discretion. The English Wikipedia has 123 users who explicitly have the account creator flag enabled
See also
- Special:Listusers/accountcreator - a list of users with the 'accountcreator' flag
- {{Accountcreator topicon}} - a top icon displaying the accountcreator icon
- {{User wikipedia/Accountcreator}} - a userbox for displaying accountcreator rights
- {{User wikipedia/accountcreator}} - an alternative userbox for displaying accountcreator rights
- {{User wikipedia/acclabsuser}} - a userbox for displaying usage rights on the ACC Tool Server
- Special:CreateAccount - a Special page which allows creation of accounts
- Mass_account_creation (Meta)
References
- ^ "English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface". accounts.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
