While I understand the intent of conserving search resource use, will this change have adverse effects in situations like professors instructing their 200-student classes to search for a particular topic and its related articles on Wikipedia?
Pine On May 18, 2015 12:35 PM, "Erik Bernhardson" <ebernhard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > In a few hours a patch will be going out which limits the number of > concurrent searches a single user will be able to make to 5. This applies > to logged in and anonymous users. The failure message is `You have too > many concurrent searches running. If you are sharing an IP address with > other users you can log in to get your own limits.` for anonymous users, or > just `You have too many concurrent searches running.` for logged in users. > These are the `cirrussearch-too-busy-for-you-anonymous-error` and > `cirrussearch-too-busy-for-you-logged-in-error` i18n messages. > > I will be monitoring the logs when this goes out, and intermittently > throughout the week as well. If necessary we will whitelist certain ip > ranges that seem to be shared among large numbers of users. > > Erik B. > _______________________________________________ > 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
