There is a page about the etiquette of using the API. [1] In short, your bot should ideally make requests in a series (not multiple requests in parallel) and use maxlag=5.
But the bug you referred to already includes this link, and I don't think there are better guidelines. [1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Small M <smallma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > There is a lack of guidelines regarding the rate at the mediawiki API may be > used. > > Specifically for the enwiki and commons api (if it doesn't matter, please say > so): > > For bots: > > Are simultaneous uploads permitted? E.g. uploading 3 20MB files > simultaneously to the commons on a 1Gbit/s line. What is the max rate > permitted? > > I was recommended at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44584 to > post to this mailing list. > > -Small > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
