Wikipedia users rarely care why you want to send spam, (which this is) and really dislike getting spammed. My suggestion would be to find a different research topic or a way to do it without spamming users emails.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Prabhavathi Matta prabha.matta@gmail.comwrote:
I understand what you are saying. However, I need to send surveys for doing the research. How should I get the permission? I have toolserver account stating the purpose of the project. Can I write a bot/batchprocess through toolserver? Right now, I am only testing with 5 users I created.
Thanks, Prabha
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
The answer is usually "don't send this stuff at all".
Do you realise that to run this tool, you need a permission from the community, otherwise you'll end up blocked?
On 08.04.2013, 10:20 Prabhavathi wrote:
Hi,
I am working on an UC Berkeley research project to analyze wikipedia users' behaviour. As a part of the project, I am developing an application which sends a survey to a random sample of recent users. I am using mwclient code to send emails though API. After testing around 3-4 times, the email tokens are not getting generated anymore. I tried to send mails from different login user. It
still gives the same error.
When I tried to send email from website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser. It says," As an anti-spam measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes." It has been 8 hours since
and I still get the same message.
Does this mean, I exceeded limit for my ip address or for that user? When I googled it, the rate limit seems to be about 1000 api calls. I have sent mails only to 3-4 test users for 5 times maximum.
Which is a better way of sending emails to wikipedia users - Toolserver or wikimedia API? How should I handle sending bulk emails(about 100) without getting the "throttled message"?
Please help.
Thanks, Prabha UC Berkeley
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