Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:58 UTC
There is a lack of guidelines regarding the rate at the mediawiki API may be used. Specifically for the enwiki and commons api (if it doesn't matter, please say so): For bots: Are simultaneous uploads permitted? E.g. uploading 3 20MB files simultaneously to the commons on a 1Gbit/s line. What is the max rate permitted? Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vpt#Asynchronous_uploads.2Fapi_usage Unofficial: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_request_limitations
This doesn't seem to be related to the MediaWiki API so much as a request for documentation about the allowed use of the API on WMF wikis. You'd probably do better to ask on wikitech-l[1] than in bugzilla. The closest thing to an official guideline that I am aware of is http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Robot_policy#Request_rate In general, best practice seems to be to have one request outstanding at any time, and to use maxlag[2] to have your bot automatically stop when the servers are overloaded. [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter
See also [[mw:API:Etiquette#Request limit]] And Notes to library developers on [[mw:API:Client code#API Access Libraries]]
