[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Maximum limit for list=search reduced from 500/5000 to 50/500

Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 14:27:10 UTC 2009


As of r55615 [1], which has gone live on Wikipedia yesterday, the
maximum limit for list=search is 50 results for regular users and 500
for sysops and bots. This is down from 500/5000 because search queries
using the maximum limit were causing performance issues.

If you specify srlimit=100 or any number higher than your new maximum
limit, you'll get an error message. If you specify srlimit=max ,
everything will keep working, but you'll get fewer results.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)



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