Roan Kattouw wrote:
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)
I think his problem is that he wants to do that in several wikis (eg.
create user pages on all wikis), so that would require a global bot flag.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bots#Global_bots
However, that isn't allowed by the policy:
"bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects"
That could be changed by community consensus, but i don't think it would
be easy.