I have a script for writing to the Wikidata API that respects the rate limit of 50 edits
per minute for bots without a bot flag. However, when that script was used by somebody
else, she received the error "As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from
performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this
limit.\nPlease try again in a few minutes". I think it is because she is a
"newbie" who is subjected to a slower rate (i.e. as in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits).
Questions:
1. Is there a newbie rate limit that is slower than the rate for "normal"
registered users?
2. If so, what is that limit?
3. How many edits must a newbie user make before they are no longer considered a
"newbie" (or is number of edits not the criterion for being considered a
newbie)?
Thanks!
Steve Baskauf
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Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. he/him/his
Data Science and Data Curation Specialist / Librarian III
Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111
Phone: (615) 343-4582
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/