Hi, On 09/08/2015 08:30 AM, Markus Krötzsch wrote: > Hi, > > Users without a bot flag will quickly receive an error when trying to > make too many edits in a row [1]. I noticed that I am getting this even > when editing at a rate of 0.5 edits/second. What is permissible there? I > would like to use this as a default throttling in WDTK.
Pywikibot uses a default throttle of 6 edits per minute, and users can override it in their config file or with a command-line argument. I think it's a sane default for most users. > Moreover, when editing as a bot, this limit does not apply. Is there a > recommended edit rate for bots? Of course there is the dispatch > statistics, but I guess it is better to avoid pushing this to a high > value before stopping. I think this depends how much your trust your code versus how many reverts you'll potentially have to make once someone finds a bug. I think 10-15 edits per minute is usually reasonable. You should still follow everything in [1] though, specifically no parallel requests and obeying maxlag. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
