There is a page about the etiquette of using the API. [1]
In short, your bot should ideally make requests in a series (not
multiple requests in parallel)
and use maxlag=5.
But the bug you referred to already includes this link,
and I don't think there are better guidelines.
[1]:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
Petr Onderka
[[en:User:Svick]]
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Small M <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
There is a lack of guidelines regarding the rate at the mediawiki API may be used.
Specifically for the enwiki and commons api (if it doesn't matter, please say so):
For bots:
Are simultaneous uploads permitted? E.g. uploading 3 20MB files simultaneously to the
commons on a 1Gbit/s line. What is the max rate permitted?
I was recommended at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44584 to post to this
mailing list.
-Small
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