stuppie
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6 years ago I don't see a reasonable way to figure out what the rate limits are, so this is (to me) the best workaround. If you make a request to the mediawiki api and hit the rate limit, you get an actionthrottledtext error message. We then wait 30 seconds and retry again. If it still fails 10 times in a row, the action will fail. https://github.com/SuLab/WikidataIntegrator/commit/9851fabb291c825e91ba9aea2dac1fd8219962e8
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Limit_page_creation_and_edit_rate