Wikipedia:Event coordinator

This page contains information about the event coordinator group and relevant policy and guideline considerations concerning the use of the event coordinator privilege. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.

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This page in a nutshell: Event coordinator user group allows editors to create multiple new accounts, and to temporarily confirm accounts so that they can create new articles and publish drafts. The group may be permanently granted to established editors, or temporarily granted to less experienced editors who are organizing outreach events. Event coordinators should confirm only users who actually participate in an outreach event, should confirm them temporarily and never for more than 10 days, and should never allow event participants access to the coordinator's account.

The event coordinator user group (eventcoordinator user group) has the following functions:

• Includes the (noratelimit) right to allow users to create accounts without being subject to the 6 accounts per IP address limit
• Allows editors to temporarily add confirmed status to event attendees with newly created accounts, bypassing the standard four-day wait. Confirmed status allows those accounts to directly create new articles, move draft pages to articles, skip CAPTCHA checking when adding links, and upload images.
• Allows editors to manage CampaignEvents in Event: namespace, granting permissions similar to those defined on Meta-wiki

This user group was created primarily in response to a community decision to permanently limit article creation to editors in the confirmed or autoconfirmed user groups.

If you wish to request the event coordinator group for yourself or another user, please see Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Event coordinator. Administrators automatically have these rights granted with the toolset.

There are currently 135 event coordinators, which makes the total number of users with this permission 976 (the rest are administrators).