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| Dec 6 2017, 11:03 AM |
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| Dec 6 2017, 11:03 AM |
I cannot search for a particular user's contribution but get this error message instead: "User has made too many edits! (Maximum 400,000)" (at the time; the threshold as of May 2024 is at 1,000,000). This happens with the user-related tools such as Edit Counter, Pages Created, and Top Edits.
We should look into analyzing only the most recent N edits instead of rejecting the request altogether. It's possible things will still go too slow, so we should test some queries first.
It unfortunately is not feasible to run these queries for a user with that many edits (in this case 1.4 million!). I just tried using some alternative, more simple queries to see if we could get any data, and it still took so long that it would time out. The other issue is long running queries can slow down XTools for everyone else. For this reason we have to have the 350,000 revision limit. Sorry!
The message is referring to the number of edits the user made. To find the pages they created, XTools essentially looks at every edit made by that user. I can't think of better wording but if you any ideas please feel free to share :)
T183351 is for a different tool but is the same underlying issue. The proposed solution to analyze only the last 350,000 I think could work for both. I'm repurposing this ticket to investigate doing this for all user-related tools.
This task is still valid, but noting that following T318036 the max edit count threshold is now at 1,000,000 edits, and I'll probably raise it more.
Hello @MusikAnimal
I'm not able to see the edit count of the user who have more that 350,000 edits using the API. So the API request have limits for now?
Unfortunately for now, yes. I need to add authentication to the APIs to enable it there. I have filed T382998 for that, but I'm not sure when I'll get around to it. It's a rather large task.