Hi David,

I read the etiquette that's why I posted additional questions.

Shall my server expect 400ms for each query of this type?

How many concurrent request of this type could be done on behalf of users?

(How many users could search per minute, let's say)

Will such queries be dependent on the language platform?

That is, if I hit en.wikipedia.api and fr.wikipedia.api from same server will it count within same wikimedia "limit" or not?

I need to understand if I could handle a multilanguage test (two/three languages), always in terms of UX rather than technical.

What do you mean by "enabled compression with Accept-Encoding and use connection keep alive" ?

I will make requests with wikitools a python library listed in mediawiki - where do I find such params?

# off topics question below :D

Thank you for the link about the Labs.

I m living in Europe and would love to move to san francisco - that is, gain a working visa :)

would be such a project grant it ? - I've read you are from France and you may have some tips here, that's why I pose this question too :)

and it's vacation time - should be :)

thank you and marry vacations :DD

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:13 PM, David Causse <dcausse@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Le 23/12/2015 18:16, Luigi Assom a écrit :

I cannot estimate exactly the amount of FST query I need; let's say each user will need a search generator only once per session.

Maybe 30 user per seconds concurrent would be a good reference (it 's same number Parse of Facebook provide, Firebase up to 100... so maybe I could relay on similar order of magnitude...)

You should have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette

If I can provide people with a smooth user experience on search, that will be interesting because I could free resources up : I may extend a test of knowledge discovery to other languages, too.
If the first user experience was too slow (~1.3s + bandwith transmission ~1.5+ per query) that could become critical.

As I said I think you can expect 400ms for this kind of API requests. You may want to double check that you enabled compression with Accept-Encoding and use connection keep alive.
You can have a look at the search dashboard[1] which provides some metrics related to response times.

Would it be possible to reserve somehow bandwith or requests for a domain?

No I don't think so.
But you are free to contribute to Mediawiki[2] or suggest a project that could be hosted by the wikitech labs infrastructure [3][4]

David.

[1] http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/metrics/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:FAQ
[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use

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