According to this, the query limit is 51 titles per query, or 501 with the apihighlimits. For lists, the default limit is 10, but can be high as 500 for users, and 5000 for users with apihighlimits. Don't know the specific configuration on WIkimedia through.
Techman224
On 2012-03-14, at 11:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
I occasionally get asked about what a reasonable rate for querying the API of a Wikimedia wiki is for a particular script or tool. I don't really know the answer other than "be reasonable" and "specify an informative User-Agent." That's essentially what I said when asked here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech&diff=3569658&oldid...
If there's an authoritative answer (on Meta-Wiki or mediawiki.org or even wikitech), that'd obviously be ideal. I'd also settle for a mailing list post. I looked at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page to see if it mentioned "limit" or "rate", but nothing came up. It's a fairly common question; it should probably be a bit easier to find.
MZMcBride
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