2007/2/21, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
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?
If there is a technical problem with high rate editing then we will limit the rate by technical means. We can't rely on policy to maintain good performance. Recommended bot edit rates are there for non-technical reasons, such as to allow time for review.
Currently there is a technically imposed limit of 8 edits per minute on IPs and new accounts, to mitigate bot-driven vandalism. There is no limit on established accounts.
Does this mean I can disable the get-throttling of the bots? Or does this statement only hold for the edit limit?