Wikipedia:Account creator
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. |
This page in a nutshell: The account creator user group allows editors to create new accounts without restriction and may be granted to editors active in the account request process or real world outreach that requires them to exceed normal account creation restrictions. |
The account creator user group (accountcreator 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 (the noratelimit flag).
- 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.
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 editors active the ACC process. 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 27 users who explicitly have the account creator flag enabled.
This right was previously granted to individuals involved with off-wiki outreach events to help them create accounts for participants. In May 2018 a new user group, event coordinator, was created, which allows individuals to not be affected by the rate limit on creating accounts without the other abilities granted to account creator. Editors who previously would have been eligible for account creator should instead request the eventcoordinator
user group.
See also
- A list of users with the accountcreator user group
- {{Accountcreator topicon}} - a top icon displaying the accountcreator icon
- {{User wikipedia/Accountcreator}} - a userbox for displaying accountcreator rights
- {{User wikipedia/acclabsuser}} - a userbox for displaying usage rights on the ACC Tool Server
- Mass account creation