Thank you everyone for giving me information regarding this process and helping me. It was very invaluable.
Thanks, Prabha
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
Prabhavathi, if you write about your project to the Wikimedia researchers' mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l and check out the resources available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index , especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ethically_researching_Wikipedia , you might find more help. I hope you are able to add to the important body of research around Wikipedia users' behavior while still respecting the community you're engaging with. (By the way, did you already check with your advisor to see whether you need an IRB okay for this? http://cphs.berkeley.edu/ )
best, Sumana Harihareswara UC Berkeley class of 2002
-- 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 Message-ID: CAPe0CmRbs2z1uCPgD5xhEazs3zs6KKOCw-6xveR9=vCn768sMA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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