Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 23:20:34 -0700 From: Prabhavathi Matta <prabha.matta(a)gmail.com> To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with generating email tokens Message-ID: <CAPe0CmRbs2z1uCPgD5xhEazs3zs6KKOCw-6xveR9=vCn768sMA(a)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