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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