On Tue, 2021-08-03 at 13:16 +0000, Baskauf, Steven James wrote:
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?
under
'wgRateLimits' lists 8 edits per minute for a 'newbie' under
'edit'.
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)?
That link mentions "4 days to pass isNewbie()" as 'default'; plus a
'wgAutoConfirmCount' for 'wikidata' => 50
In general, a user could query their ratelimits via
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Userinfo
HTH,
andre
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