On 7/13/07, maillists1a(a)aol.com <maillists1a(a)aol.com> wrote:
I see on your technical FAQ page that if
you use a Spider to retrieve data to set a limit on searches to one
search every 60 seconds.
That bit was added on 17 March 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Technical_FAQ&diff=…
At that point, according to the page on that date, the hardware used
was "a PC that has dual Athlon MP 1800+ processors. . . . 2GB of RAM
and 36GB of storage on SCSI hard drives." I rather suspect you can be
a bit more liberal now, especially for simple article views (which are
cached by Squids), but I've heard varying things about the exact
timeframes you should wait, so I'll let one of the sysadmins answer
this one. If no one does, try bugging them in #wikimedia-tech on
FreeNode.