https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44584

--- Comment #1 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> ---
This doesn't seem to be related to the MediaWiki API so much as a request for
documentation about the allowed use of the API on WMF wikis. You'd probably do
better to ask on wikitech-l[1] than in bugzilla.

The closest thing to an official guideline that I am aware of is
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Robot_policy#Request_rate

In general, best practice seems to be to have one request outstanding at any
time, and to use maxlag[2] to have your bot automatically stop when the servers
are overloaded.


 [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter

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