Hoi,
Because once it is a requirement and not a recommendation, it will be impossible to reverse this. The insidious creep of more rules and requirements will make Wikidata increasingly less of a wiki. Arguably most of the edits done by bot are of a higher quality than those done by hand. It is for the people maintaining the SPARQL environment to ensure that it is up to the job as it does not affect Wikidata itself.

I think each of these argument holds its own. Together they are hopefully potent enough to prevent such silliness.

Thanks,
     GerardM


On 19 November 2015 at 08:55, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
So, the page that Markus points to describes heeding the replication lag limit as a recommendation.  Since running a bot is a privilege, not a right, why isn't the "recommendation" a requirement instead of a recommendation?

Tom

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 18.11.2015 19:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Andra Waagmeester, 18/11/2015 19:03:
How do you do add "hunderds (if not thousands)" items per minute?

Usually
1) concurrency,
2) low latency.

 In fact, it is not hard to get this. I guess Andra is getting speeds of 20-30 items because their bot framework is throttling the speed on purpose. If I don't throttle WDTK, I can easily do well over 100 edits per minute in a single thread (I did not try the maximum ;-).

Already a few minutes of fast editing might push up the median dispatch lag sufficiently for a bot to stop/wait. While the slow edit rate is a rough guess (not a strict rule), respecting the dispatch stats is mandatory for Wikidata bots, so things will eventually slow down (or your bot be blocked ;-). See [1].

Markus

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots



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