https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31197

--- Comment #23 from John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> 2011-10-06 
03:34:23 UTC ---
It is only edge cases which take a lot of time (like rambot), and the longer
the query takes, the more difficult it would be to obtain the results via
another approach.

The vast majority of invocations are quick (a few seconds).  If we are really
worried about preventing these worse case queries, it should be disabled for
users where
  subject user_editcount is 100,000 or more, and 
  invokers don't have a new permission like noquerylimit (similar to
noratelimit)
    which would be given to administrators and maybe rollbackers

Any serious user wont be running these obscure queries unless they actually do
want the results, and they are prepared to wait because the alternative is to
step through 5000 edits at a time.

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