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)
Bot edits don't show up recent changes by default, only in watchlists,
where
they can be disabled. I'll wait for a response from one of the sysadmins
before raising the limit in the bot policy.
--Mets501
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