Wikimedia · Rate Limits
Mediawiki Action Api
Rate limiting rules and usage guidelines for the MediaWiki Action API (api.php). Read operations have no hard rate cap but require responsible usage. Write operations are subject to site-configured limits based on user rights.
Mediawiki Action Api is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Wikimedia on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions.
Tagged areas include Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Encyclopedia, Open Knowledge, and Content.
2 Limits
WikipediaWikimediaEncyclopediaOpen KnowledgeContentSearchReference
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