On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:47:48PM -0400, maillists1a(a)aol.com wrote:
Dear Wikipedia,
My name is Joshua Kriger. I am currently developing software for
wikipedia on a mobile phone. 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. Currently I have 2 phones connected to a
refurbished dell PC that I am using on a Static IP address. Previously
I have done what Wikipedia FAQ preferres to use, the Wiki Dumps, but
this makes the search on my end extremely slow and is not a live
Wikipedia experience. Since I am doing so few searches daily to the
mobile phones (right now its less then 25). Is it possible to be grant
my IP permission to spider wikipedia in intervals less then one minute
without having my IP blocked. Previously I read on the Wikipedia FAQ
that the suggestion for a spider server was one search per second
(which would be totally acceptable since I am using so few phones) but
I see now this has been updated to once per minute which will be more
difficult when I move from two phones online to my eventual target of
10. I also want to thank you for your time in dedication to building
such a wonderful service.
Is this a gateway, allowing human users to access WP using mobile
phones, or is it really a spider, a computer program that requests lots
(thousands) of pages without any human intervention?
Regards,
jens