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)