You didn't say what kind of queries are you planing to do, but wouldn't the database dumps [1] be enough for you?
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Ewa Szwed ewaszynal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I am currently working on a project which involves using the wikipedia content. The expected traffic that our system needs to serve is around 200 qps during peak time. My question is if using Media WIKI directly is really my option here (I mean sending get requests to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ridectly without any local mirror). Would this traffic be supported or banned? Also what about the availability of the service and possible latencies? If it was banned what is the best approach? Thanks in advance for any answer. Ewa Szwed _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api