Re: [Wikitech-l] API data push/pull guidelines

2013-02-02 Thread Petr Onderka
There is a page about the etiquette of using the API. [1] In short, your bot should ideally make requests in a series (not multiple requests in parallel) and use maxlag=5. But the bug you referred to already includes this link, and I don't think there are better guidelines. [1]: http://www.media

[Wikitech-l] API data push/pull guidelines

2013-02-02 Thread Small M
Hello, There is a lack of guidelines regarding the rate at the mediawiki API may be used. Specifically for the enwiki and commons api (if it doesn't matter, please say so): For bots: Are simultaneous uploads permitted? E.g. uploading 3 20MB files simultaneously to the commons on a 1Gbit/s li