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Bug 73269 - Extend throttle.php to allow other throttling configuration rather than account creation
Extend throttle.php to allow other throttling configuration rather than accou...
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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: Low enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2014-11-11 16:12 UTC by matanya
Modified: 2014-11-11 16:49 UTC (History)
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Description matanya 2014-11-11 16:12:51 UTC 
wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php has some global throttling configuration, under wgRateLimits, but only account creation rates are configurable using throttle.php

Adding the ability to configure others, such as edit rates for new editor (useful in edithathons) and other configuration would be very useful.
Comment 1 Dereckson 2014-11-11 16:35:49 UTC 
Could you give us facts about the current limits and how they could usefully be bypassed during events?
Comment 2 matanya 2014-11-11 16:45:24 UTC 
yes. today was a editahathon in a uni in israel all attendees were requested to create an account 24h before the event due to past issue with account creation rate limiting in the past. there were 70 editors editing from one ip. which in the config limits to 8/min. due to this most editor could not edit. This is a use case i faced today.
Comment 3 Andre Klapper 2014-11-11 16:49:06 UTC 
[The bug title does not describe a bug but a solution or feature / new functionality. Hence setting priority to enhancement.]

Might also be something to file against MediaWiki extensions > ThrottleOverride ?
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