On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dirt Diver <info(a)dirtdiver.org> wrote:
What is the policy by Wikimedia for the API use, how
much delay should I use
between the wiki's? Currently its 3 sec between every wiki's but that makes
me hit the limit. What is the adviced time?
Rate limits affect edits, rollbacks and moves only. They are applied
both in the UI and in the API (although you probably have to try
pretty hard to hit them in the UI).
On Wikimedia wikis, the rate limit for editing is 8 edits per minute
for anonymous (logged-out) and new users. So waiting 3 seconds between
edits will result in almost 20 edits per minute, that's way too much.
If you're operating a bot, you should get an account for it and ask
for a bot flag. That way you'll be exempt from rate limits and the
bot's edits will be hidden from Special:RecentChanges if you pass
&bot=1 in the action=edit call.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)