https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54406

--- Comment #17 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Bots are explicitly not rate-limited.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_requirements states
> that
> "bots doing non-urgent tasks may edit approximately once every ten seconds". 
> Am I missing something?

That requirement is imposed by the community, it is not necessarily a technical
limit. If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights,
the 'bot' group is deliberately exempted from rate limits with the
'noratelimit' userright.

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