Hi, you are most likely hitting the limits that have been announced since last year in our robot policy, and very clearly stated there, which we started enforcing progressively and finally got applied fully in January.
What's most likely happening is that you haven't set proper contact information for you InstantCommons User-Agent, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons#User-Agent_Policy Cheers, Giuseppe On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM Felipe Schenone via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> 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 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>. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) via Wikitech-l < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Il 02/03/26 22:41, Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l ha scritto: >> > To give you an idea, anonymous >> > requests will be in the hundreds per hour, authenticated several >> > thousand per hour. >> >> That seems very easy to hit just doing some searches from the search >> bar. How are we going to detect the collateral damage on unregistered >> users? >> >> Federico >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ -- Giuseppe Lavagetto Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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