https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16781





--- Comment #2 from Gurch <[email protected]>  2008-12-24 16:00:56 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't really comment on what's too high and what isn't, someone with more
> knowledge in the performance field should do that. Something that should be
> noted is that the 500/5000 limit in the API applies to each query separately,
> and since there are 34 query types in core (extensions like FlaggedRevs and
> GlobalBlocking provide even more), even a non-sysop user could get up to
> 34*500=17,000 results in one request.

True, I hadn't thought of that. I suppose that's a valid argument for keeping
the limit down.

In practise, of course, there aren't any situations where such a request would
provide results of any usefulness :)


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