Hello Piotr,
Tools like this should continue to work fine if they authenticate when making
the API requests. We don't want to break community tools, but we can't
distinguish them from commercial scrapers, which we want to rate limit. So the
way to fix the tools is to make the user log in, or to run the tools on WMCS.
The there are problems with making tools authenticate for making API calls,
please let us know.
HTH,
Daniel
Am 13.03.26 um 22:41 schrieb Piotr Gackowski via Wikitech-l:
This change has more or less crashed my workflows related to Structured Data
on Commons.
Both Depictor and Wikicrowd have effectively stopped working for me. The “for
me” part is important — I have been making more than 100k edits per month for
the last three years.
I have already reported the issues to the tool maintainers:
https://github.com/hay/wiki-tools/issues/179
https://github.com/addshore/wikicrowd/issues/236
However, I want to highlight a broader problem. At Wikimania 2024 in Katowice,
I gave a presentation about adding Structured Data to Commons [1]. During that
talk, I recommended tools such as Depictor, Wikicrowd, AC/DC, and the SDC
tool. Since then, every single tool I mentioned has become heavily limited by
some form of rate limiting.
As a result, I increasingly feel that my hands are tied with every new change
introduced by WMF in this area.
PMG
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/What_tools_you_can_use_to_fill_Structure_Data_on_Commons_files.
czw., 12 mar 2026 o 11:47 Daniel Kinzler via Wikitech-l
<[email protected]> napisał(a):
Hi all!
As previously announced
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/GBFZTN3A233IR6F4HEENCIUCVI2ZH6YB/>,
we have started rolling out new global API rate limits across our APIs to
help ensure fair and sustainable access
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Content_Reuse>to
Wikimedia resources.
We have just enabled the first set of limits, which apply to anonymous
requests from bots and unauthenticated requests from web browsers. See the
documentation on mediawiki.org <http://mediawiki.org>for more information.
This has now been updated with actual limits for anonymous requests and
authenticated bot requests that do not come from WMCS. We are still
finalizing the initial limits for User-Agent only (e.g. InstantCommons)
and authenticated browser requests.
As a next step, rate limits for logged in users will follow in early April
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Responsible_Reuse/WE5.1:_Developer_authentication_and_authorization#Timeline>.
The concrete limits will be communicated beforehand. Access for clients
running in WMCS and accounts that have a bot flag will not be affected by
this change. However, all developers are advised to familiarize themselves
with the new limits and follow the best practices outlined in the
documentation.
If you see any unexpected issues that might be the result of the limits
rolled out today, we are actively monitoring this list, relevant Talk
pages and [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
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MediaWiki Engineering Group
Wikimedia Foundation
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