Re: New global API rate limits

Hi,

thank you for bringing this up. We are currently working to adjust the limits in 
a way that will avoid disruption for outliers like this.

Can you give a rough estimate how much traffic that gadget would generate per 
usage? Hundreds of requests? Thousands?

Thanks,
Daniel


Am 04.03.26 um 09:35 schrieb Count Count via Wikitech-l:
> Hi!
>
> If I read this correctly, user scripts/gadgets such as this one 
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal>, which 
> marks users that are globally blocked/locked, are also affected. This one (and 
> others I am sure) can generate quite a lot of requests. None of the proposed 
> solutions seem suitable to help with that. What can be done? Is proxying those 
> requests through a toolforge webservice, which requires quite a bit of 
> development effort, the only option?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Count Count
>
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