Re: New global API rate limits
Tenshi H via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:41:00 +0000
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On Monday, March 2nd, 2026 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Tweed via [email protected]: > If tools are running on WMCS, this will exempt you from the limits > even when using OAuth 1.0. > > For tools outside WMCS, OAuth 1.0 consumers will work as long as you > also send cookies as this will include a JWT cookie in the request > that we can validate in place of an OAuth 2.0 access token. [Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits#Caveats](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits#Caveats) says however that "OAuth 1 access tokens are not supported by the rate limit infrastructure. Requests using OAuth 1 tokens will be treated as unauthenticated with respect to rate limiting." Which is what's going to happen? > _______________________________________________ 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/