According to this, the query limit is 51 titles per query, or 501 with the 
apihighlimits. For lists, the default limit is 10, but can be high as 500 for 
users, and 5000 for users with apihighlimits. Don't know the specific 
configuration on WIkimedia through.

Techman224

On 2012-03-14, at 11:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I occasionally get asked about what a reasonable rate for querying the API
> of a Wikimedia wiki is for a particular script or tool. I don't really know
> the answer other than "be reasonable" and "specify an informative
> User-Agent." That's essentially what I said when asked here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech&diff=3569658&oldid=3569474
> 
> If there's an authoritative answer (on Meta-Wiki or mediawiki.org or even
> wikitech), that'd obviously be ideal. I'd also settle for a mailing list
> post. I looked at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> to see if
> it mentioned "limit" or "rate", but nothing came up. It's a fairly common
> question; it should probably be a bit easier to find.
> 
> MZMcBride
> 
> 
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