On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Jonas Öberg jonas@commonsmachinery.se wrote:
That's a neat idea - I didn't know that the API took multiple file names in one query. If we could do 500 files per request, 10-12 per minute, that's a more than adequate - but it feels that this is something that we should be talking to ops about to validate?
12 per minute is the default setting for the standard bot framework https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot, there are lots of bots doing processing with that speed and the max allowed item limit. I don't think you need to ask anyone before doing that. If you want to be extra nice, you can use the maxlag parameter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter.