Hoi,
When a bot has the bot flag, it is not the recent changes that are
flooded. The default setting for recent changes is NOT to show changes
by bots. It is the changes to the watch list that are affected here the
bot changes ARE shown by default. You can hide the changes to bots..
So the argument is fairly weak.
Thanks,
GerardM
Andrew Garrett schreef:
Jeremy Cushman wrote:
Right now on the English Wikipedia bots are
limited to 6 edits per minute.
Is it time to raise the permitted edit rate? Do we have the server capacity
now to handle rapid editing?
--Mets501
This edit-rate limitation is because nobody wants to flood Recent Changes,
not for any particular technical reason. As far as I am aware, given the
traffic that the servers already handle, bot traffic is fairly trivial
( current traffic is in excess of 40, 000 SQL queries per second. Please
do NOT take this as gospel. Brion, Tim, Domas, Mark and the rest of the
sysadmin team know much more about our capacity than I do, so I would
recommend checking with them first.
Andrew Garrett
(werdna)