On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 6:57 AM Baskauf, Steven James < [email protected]> wrote:
> The other thing that is different about what I'm doing and what is being > done by the other user who is not encountering this problem is that I'm > authenticating directly by establishing a session when the script starts > (lines 347-349). As Brad said, you should use OAuth: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth/Wikimedia It won't help with the throttling, but it's simpler and more secure (and if you do use PAWS, it should work without any setup). Eventually I will probably apply for a bot flag, but I doubt that this bot > will ever be autonomous, so is that really necessary? While the ultimate authority on thi is always the community of the given wiki (via its bureaucrats, or a bot approval committee in some cases), IMO semi-autonomous tools are the ones where a human reviews every edit, which does not seem to be the case here. In any case, it is necessary if you want to make several dozen edits a minute and are not in any other group which has the noratelimit right. > Would it matter if I used my own account instead of a separate bot account? > Depends on the exact limit you've hit, but probably not unless you are an administrator on that wiki. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
