Its probably not this rate limit change (i assume its the media limit change), but many people have reported this with (quick) instant commons. I am aware of at least one site who was able to negotiate an exception to the limit.
QuickInstantCommons supports configuring the max cache time, as a first step try increasing that significantly. -- Brian On Wednesday, 4 March 2026, Bartosz Dziewoński via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-03-04 15:17, Felipe Schenone via Wikitech-l wrote: > >> FYI, this new limit seems to be affecting the InstantCommons <https:// >> www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons> feature used by many (if not >> most) external wikis. At appropedia.org <http://appropedia.org> we're >> experiencing many broken images, apparently because we've reached our >> request limit. This can actually be a good thing because it has forced me >> to upload to our server some images that were being used many times via >> templates and that shouldn't have been loaded from Commons in the first >> place. I just wanted to bring this up because it isn't currently documented >> at Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits <https://www.mediawiki.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits>. >> > The API rate limits are not live yet, so the InstantCommons problems have > to be caused by a different rate limiting change. > > Perhaps it's due to the standardisation of thumbnail sizes: > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414805 > * https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists > .wikimedia.org/thread/LS2NVZTBZPQDK2W7IP66SHUXP2J54435/ > > Or perhaps due to whatever is causing this issue: > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418323 > > Ironically, I was not able to debug on your website, as my attempt to > preview an edit with a Commons image was blocked by an unsolvable > Cloudflare CAPTCHA. > > -- > Bartosz Dziewoński > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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