A quick peek at ANI
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents>
shows
over 1650 requests on a single load because I have the MarkLocked
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GeneralNotability/mark-locked.js> script
loaded on my account.

Regards,
Sohom Datta
---
Open-source contributor @Wikimedia, @Chromium


On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 4:41 AM Count Count via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The MarkBLockedGlobal script currently does about 300 requests per page
> view of Steward Requests/Global on meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global> but it is also
> helpful on Special:Watchlist/Special:RecentChanges. I think 100-1000
> requests is common, it can go over a 1000 in rare cases (though over 10000
> would be unlikely).  No idea what other request-heavy gadgets/user scripts
> exist.
>
> Count Count
>
> Am Mi., 4. März 2026 um 10:18 Uhr schrieb Daniel Kinzler <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thank you for bringing this up. We are currently working to adjust the
>> limits in a way that will avoid disruption for outliers like this.
>>
>> Can you give a rough estimate how much traffic that gadget would generate
>> per usage? Hundreds of requests? Thousands?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> Am 04.03.26 um 09:35 schrieb Count Count via Wikitech-l:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> If I read this correctly, user scripts/gadgets such as this one
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal>,
>> which marks users that are globally blocked/locked, are also affected. This
>> one (and others I am sure) can generate quite a lot of requests. None of
>> the proposed solutions seem suitable to help with that. What can be done?
>> Is proxying those requests through a toolforge webservice, which requires
>> quite a bit of development effort, the only option?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Count Count
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected]
>> To unsubscribe send an email to 
>> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Kinzler
>> Principal Software Engineer
>> MediaWiki Engineering Group
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/

Reply via email to