Hi,
On 09/08/2015 08:30 AM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
Hi,
Users without a bot flag will quickly receive an error when trying to make too many edits in a row [1]. I noticed that I am getting this even when editing at a rate of 0.5 edits/second. What is permissible there? I would like to use this as a default throttling in WDTK.
Pywikibot uses a default throttle of 6 edits per minute, and users can override it in their config file or with a command-line argument. I think it's a sane default for most users.
Moreover, when editing as a bot, this limit does not apply. Is there a recommended edit rate for bots? Of course there is the dispatch statistics, but I guess it is better to avoid pushing this to a high value before stopping.
I think this depends how much your trust your code versus how many reverts you'll potentially have to make once someone finds a bug. I think 10-15 edits per minute is usually reasonable.
You should still follow everything in [1] though, specifically no parallel requests and obeying maxlag.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
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