On 15 October 2012 09:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > WereSpielChequers, 15/10/2012 09:56: > >> 60 edits a minute sounds high, and probably faster than most of these >> sessions run at, but not if it is as I suspect, calculated every few >> seconds. > > It's not, as far as I can see. This is how it works: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits> (someone please expand > it otherwise). > And these are all the existing limits: > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=blob;f=wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php;h=f814f3b46e996d6cb33d64c43965e807dfaec810;hb=HEAD#l6437> > Does Andrew's experience not fit with this?
These limits confuse me a bit, I have to admit. The key one seems to be: 'edit' => array( 'ip' => array( 8, 60 ), 'newbie' => array( 8, 60 ), but per the manual, "ip" only applies to "each anon and recent account", and "newbie" applies to "each recent account" - surely "each" means the rate-limiting should be applied to the accounts individually, rather than being triggered by them all coming from the same location? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit_throttling suggests it can also be configured as something on the enwiki edit filters, but I've had a look at those and couldn't immediately see one that seems to do this. > Rate limits have never been a problem with some minimal preparation: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation> (in 6-7 years of > WMIT workshops, I've never heard of big problems with this). I want to emphasise again that I've pretty much never had problems with account creation rate limiting - everyone attending a workshop is asked to create an account as part of a little bit of homework three days earlier - it's only ever been edit throttling that's an issue. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
