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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 23:20:34 -0700
> From: Prabhavathi Matta
prabha.matta@gmail.com
> To: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with generating email tokens
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> 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