You didn't say what kind of queries are you planing to do, but wouldn't the database dumps [1] be enough for you?
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Ewa Szwed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am currently working on a project which involves using the wikipedia > content. The expected traffic that our system needs to serve is around 200 > qps during peak time. > My question is if using Media WIKI directly is really my option here (I mean > sending get requests to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ridectly without > any local mirror). Would this traffic be supported or banned? > Also what about the availability of the service and possible latencies? > If it was banned what is the best approach? > Thanks in advance for any answer. > Ewa Szwed > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
