Wikipedia:Account creator
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This is an information page.
It describes the editing community's established practice on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and customs. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.
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This page in a nutshell: The account creator permission allows users to use Special:CreateAccount and other tools 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 group grants access to a tool which permits trusted Wikipedia contributors to make a large number of accounts for other people who request them.
Account creators' abilities
Accounts in the account creator user group have the technical ability to perform the following actions:
- Create more than six accounts in a 24-hour period with Special:CreateAccount or other tools
- 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:
- Active and experienced in the request an account process (ACC) and so are identified to the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Involved in the Education Program or other outreach work where they have a need to create accounts without restriction regularly.
- Temporarily, as the event coordinator for a short event, where these users also need to create accounts without restriction.
The right is included in the Administrator toolset.
Users are expected to correctly handle many requests and have hit the six (6) account rate limit more than once before requesting the flag, which may be done at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator.
To grant the flag, administrators should follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator/Administrator instructions.
Other information
The account creator permission is provided to active account creators in both the ACC process and the education program only while they are performing those roles. Users with the account creator right are allowed to use any of the technical abilities included with this user right at their own discretion. The English Wikipedia has 148 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
- Mass_account_creation (Meta)
