This will bring such a idea to a screeching halt. Any kind of shared IPs will be unable to search
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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" <[email protected]> > 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
