On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Bahodir Mansurov <[email protected]> wrote:
> I doubt all 200 students will be making concurrent searches. > I can easily imagine a scenario where 200 students in a large lecture classroom might be instructed to open their laptops, go to Wikipedia, and search for a particular topic at the same time. Similar to how teachers [used to] say "now everyone in the class turn to Chapter 8...". If that is indeed what we're talking about here, it will be disruptive. - Jonathan > > On May 18, 2015, at 7:57 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
