Sorry I should have elaborated further.
I have had a script for a long time that gathers some information from
Wikipedia. I only run it occasionally and it doesn’t make very many requests. I
hadn’t run in a few days and when I ran it today, I got that error message and
can’t seem to fix it. Weirdly, about 1% requests do actually do go through..
that is, until after a few minutes of running the script, when all requests
fail with no exception.
I have tried everything and nothing seems to fix it. I don’t think it’s a rate
limit issue either - I tried using my VPN and I still got the same error.
My personal theory has been that some process on Wikipedia’s servers is
overloaded. That seems to explain the errors as well as the few requests that
do go through.
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On Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 at 11:43 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You should probably send requests less frequently, you are hitting some sort
> of throttling.
>
> (And we should probably show a more comprehensible error page. Filed as
> [T354718](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354718).)
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