Hi,

I am Chinmay Naik, a Gsoc intern and operator of ProteinBoxBot(runs on pywikipedia - formerly rewrite branch). When i run the bot, there exists a sleep time of around 10 s (7s average) between two successive writes.

The bot will handle around 40,000 wikidata items corresponding to gene wiki articles from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_proteins . Also , i will be uploading around 30 (claims + sources) for each wikidata item.

If u take a look at the recent edits (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/ProteinBoxBot&offset=&limit=250&target=ProteinBoxBot), it takes around 5 mins to completely write all claims+sources to each wikidata item. This is a very large time lag and will hugely affect deployment. Is there any way to reduce this sleep time? Any pointers on this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Chinmay