Re: New global API rate limits

On 2026-03-04 15:17, Felipe Schenone via Wikitech-l 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 <http://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>.
The API rate limits are not live yet, so the InstantCommons problems 
have to be caused by a different rate limiting change.

Perhaps it's due to the standardisation of thumbnail sizes:
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414805
* 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/LS2NVZTBZPQDK2W7IP66SHUXP2J54435/

Or perhaps due to whatever is causing this issue:
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418323

Ironically, I was not able to debug on your website, as my attempt to 
preview an edit with a Commons image was blocked by an unsolvable 
Cloudflare CAPTCHA.

-- 
Bartosz Dziewoński
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