2015-09-08 18:37 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]>:

> On 08.09.2015 18:21, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Markus Krötzsch
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> All I could find is the maxlag and dispatch lag here:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots#Approval_process
>>
>
> Yes, I know those, but non-bot users are blocked after 9 quick edits no
> matter how high maxlag and median lag are at the moment. There seems to be
> a separate mechanism for this.


I believe that is not even only for a single user. I had a workshop a
couple of weeks ago where I was training in how to use the tool Autolist to
edit. With 10 people in the room this error message were being shown long
before anyone of them had made 9 edits.

/Jan



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