Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Wikimedia wikis, the rate limit for editing is 8 edits per minute > for anonymous (logged-out) and new users. So waiting 3 seconds between > edits will result in almost 20 edits per minute, that's way too much. > If you're operating a bot, you should get an account for it and ask > for a bot flag. That way you'll be exempt from rate limits and the > bot's edits will be hidden from Special:RecentChanges if you pass > &bot=1 in the action=edit call. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
I think his problem is that he wants to do that in several wikis (eg. create user pages on all wikis), so that would require a global bot flag. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bots#Global_bots However, that isn't allowed by the policy: "bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects" That could be changed by community consensus, but i don't think it would be easy. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
