FYI, this new limit seems to be affecting the InstantCommons feature used by many (if not most) external wikis. At appropedia.org we're experiencing many broken images, apparently because we've reached our request limit. This can actually be a good thing because it has forced me to upload to our server some images that were being used many times via templates and that shouldn't have been loaded from Commons in the first place. I just wanted to bring this up because it isn't currently documented at Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

Il 02/03/26 22:41, Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l ha scritto:
> To give you an idea, anonymous
> requests will be in the hundreds per hour, authenticated several
> thousand per hour.

That seems very easy to hit just doing some searches from the search
bar. How are we going to detect the collateral damage on unregistered users?

Federico
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