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Running into email rate limit / throttling on Commons
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I'm on the international WLM team for which I need to contact many people (pretty much with the same message) and the system keeps blocking me, giving this message:

As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes.

Is there a way to change privileges so I won't be blocked?

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MarcoAurelio subscribed.

It looks you're hitting the MediaWiki implicit rate limits rather than ThrottleOverride. If this is happening to you in a Wikimedia project, you're definitely hitting the MediaWiki rate limits as ThrottleOverride is not installed on Wikimedia anywhere. On which project you're facing this issue?

I'm just trying to send emails to users. I go to user's page and click on "Email this user" option to send them an email.

I'm just trying to send emails to users. I go to user's page and click on "Email this user" option to send them an email.

@m.hekmat You're definitely hitting the MediaWiki default rate limits. You should avoid performing the same action very quickly or see if you can be added to a user group with the 'noratelimit' user right. On which wiki are you facing this issue?

@MarcoAurelio It's just on commons. Where can I ask to be added to that group?

Aklapper renamed this task from Throttle Override to Running into email rate limit / throttling on Commons.Nov 1 2019, 6:04 AM
Aklapper edited projects, added MediaWiki-Email; removed MediaWiki-General.

@m.hekmat Hello again. You can ask at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard to be added temporarily to the 'account creator' user group, which has extended rate limits. That would let you send those emails without MediaWiki complaining that you're doing it too fast. I am closing this task as invalid because there's nothing we can do from Phabricator to help you here. Best regards.