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Help with Special:EmailUser

Hello, I intend to use Special:EmailUser to send meeting join links to participants in the Wikimedia Café session that will start approximately 36 hours from now. Apparently, when sending messages through this tool to people who signed up to participate in the session, I reached a threshold that triggered my account being temporarily locked out from the tool. Is there a way to exempt my account from this threshold temporarily? Thanks. ↠Pine (✉) 02:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

About how many do you need to send? — xaosflux ^Talk 02:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Pine: Is it just THESE? — xaosflux ^Talk 02:55, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• @Xaosflux: yes, those. A temporary ceiling of 100 emails sent through Special:EmailUser from my account per 24 hours, expiring for my account at the start of 9 March 2026, probably would be more than sufficient. Having the buffer for last-minute signups and post-meeting needs would be appreciated. Thanks. ↠Pine (✉) 06:07, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a script at en:User:DreamRimmer/MassEmail to send mass email if there are many users to email. – DreamRimmer ■ 04:04, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• @DreamRimmer: thanks, but how effective is that script for a non-admin account that doesn't have any special permissions regarding Special:EmailUser? More than 20 people have signed up for this Café session. ↠Pine (✉) 06:07, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

  It doesn't have any way to bypass rate limits, but it can send email to multiple users at once. – DreamRimmer ■ 06:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Pine. Have you tried out creating the event using the Event Registration. I hope this can be easy for this kind of events and can share the email to the registered participants easily.- ❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 07:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• @Gnoeee: thanks for the suggestion. I have considered that. I anticipated a smaller signup list than this event is getting, and that was a factor in deciding not to invest my time learning & testing this tool for the meetup. However, for future Café sessions, I plan to revisit this option. Thanks again. ↠Pine (✉) 01:45, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• Done @Pine: I've temporarily added you to a group that may allow this, please try. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:22, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• @Xaosflux: thanks, I'll find out what happens. ↠Pine (✉) 01:45, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2026-13904-13

~2026-13904-13 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 13:31, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Done NDG (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:~2026-14351-49

~2026-14351-49 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 13:52, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Done Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 13:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:~2026-14309-40

~2026-14309-40 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism MathXplore (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Done NDG (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:~2026-14524-82

~2026-14524-82 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 15:55, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Done Ternera (talk) 15:57, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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Mzubair119003

Mzubair119003 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA)

Only a couple of edits here so far, but both look like weird "tests". - Jmabel (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Done Warned. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 02:44, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Icelandicreligeon

Icelandicreligeon (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --PieWriter (talk) 04:37, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Done, thanks --Mtarch11 (talk) 04:39, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Mtarch11 Can you revert all the moves? PieWriter (talk) 04:42, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Done. //shb (t • c) 04:44, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@SHB2000: thanks. Sorry, my PC crashed :/ --Mtarch11 (talk) 04:49, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:~2026-14643-65

~2026-14643-65 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism MathXplore (talk) 05:27, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Done NDG (talk) 07:15, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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