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Rate Limiting Wiki Editors

Started by damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor on in Bugs & Issues.

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damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
Hi,

I'm not even sure if this is possible but can we get the number of requests per user on the wiki before being rate limited increased for wiki editors? (by even 2 to 3x, exclusively for wiki editors if possible.)

I find myself getting locked out a ton through purely human initiated requests whenever there is a small change that needs to be made on multiple pages.
Chedburn [1] Admin Developer
I just wanted to confirm, are you referring to the internal wiki rate limiter, or the Cloudflare rate limit? Which error are / were you seeing?
damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
I believe it was the internal one. It happened last night as I was doing a small update on about 50 pages (to be fair, the first time it's happened since the update kicked in).

It says something like "An unusual amount of requests towards TORN has been detected from your IP. Please check any scripts you or others on your IP are using."
damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
Was rate limited again today (it still could be a bit higher limit IMO) while mass creating patch histories. Anyway, the exact verbiage:

"You are being rate limited.We have detected an unusually high number of requests directed towards TORN originating from your IP address. Please check any software or scripts you (or others on your IP address) are using."
damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
I was rate limited again tonight after what felt like a fairly small amount of requests. Is there anything we can do about this yet?

As Bumfluff asked, was the higher cap only applied to the editor group, and not the wiki contributor group?
damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
I'm getting rate limited at a rate where I'm able to get in maybe one edit before being locked out for an hour. My ability to contribute is crippled at the moment.
Chedburn [1] Admin Developer
We have a simple plan to resolve this, however we'll need Vysdel to deploy a recent Wiki update that'll allow us to add a filter to CF's rate limiting, he's unavailable currently.
damaster [641864] Wiki Contributor
Just glad it's being addressed; I understand with the situation in Ukraine resources for this probably aren't available so no rush. Thanks!
Chedburn [1] Admin Developer
Hopefully that's all sorted now, that rate limit should not be able to trigger for you anymore. Thanks for your patience.