So, the page that Markus points to describes heeding the replication lag
limit as a recommendation.  Since running a bot is a privilege, not a
right, why isn't the "recommendation" a requirement instead of a
recommendation?

Tom

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Markus Krötzsch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18.11.2015 19:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>
>> Andra Waagmeester, 18/11/2015 19:03:
>>
>>> How do you do add "hunderds (if not thousands)" items per minute?
>>>
>>
>> Usually
>> 1) concurrency,
>> 2) low latency.
>>
>
> In fact, it is not hard to get this. I guess Andra is getting speeds of
> 20-30 items because their bot framework is throttling the speed on purpose.
> If I don't throttle WDTK, I can easily do well over 100 edits per minute in
> a single thread (I did not try the maximum ;-).
>
> Already a few minutes of fast editing might push up the median dispatch
> lag sufficiently for a bot to stop/wait. While the slow edit rate is a
> rough guess (not a strict rule), respecting the dispatch stats is mandatory
> for Wikidata bots, so things will eventually slow down (or your bot be
> blocked ;-). See [1].
>
> Markus
>
> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots
>
>
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