https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54406
--- Comment #22 from Nemo <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #21) > Popular templates are protected for a reason, and editors don't edit them > needlessly, as they know about the high load this causes. > > For templates there is no way around the load this creates when they really > need to be edited. Ok, so people avoid things which cause overload but still in July we had about 2M additional job queue items. And it seems that's fine. What's not fine then, what is this bug about? Can we please identify the problem and the source of it? Otherwise I don't see how one can identify solutions. > I have a hard time seeing a similarly good reason for > making > 8 million null edits at a rate of ~4/second. I'm having a hard time too. They are just speculations without answers to what above. > Especially without talking to > the > people responsible for keeping the site running (This makes sense.) > and in contravention of the > bot > policy. Sigh. There isn't any contravention of the bot policy. The relevant local page is [[Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance]]. Hint: the policies or pseudo-policies you are looking for are on wikitech, e.g. [[wikitech:Robot policy]]. I don't remember which one precisely but there is one written by Tim which explicitly says "if you're causing problems/bringing the site down we'll block you", period. In this case however, I still don't see what the problem is. Again, why is 2M not a problem but 3M yes? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
