On Tue, 2021-08-03 at 13:16 +0000, Baskauf, Steven James wrote: > I have a script for writing to the Wikidata API that respects the rate > limit of 50 edits per minute for bots without a bot flag. However, when > that script was used by somebody else, she received the error "As an > anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too > many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this > limit.\nPlease try again in a few minutes". I think it is because she > is a "newbie" who is subjected to a slower rate (i.e. as in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits). > > Questions: > 1. Is there a newbie rate limit that is slower than the rate for > "normal" registered users? > 2. If so, what is that limit?
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt under 'wgRateLimits' lists 8 edits per minute for a 'newbie' under 'edit'. > 3. How many edits must a newbie user make before they are no longer > considered a "newbie" (or is number of edits not the criterion for > being considered a newbie)? That link mentions "4 days to pass isNewbie()" as 'default'; plus a 'wgAutoConfirmCount' for 'wikidata' => 50 In general, a user could query their ratelimits via https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Userinfo HTH, andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/