Pintoch added a comment.
Thanks for the analysis! Whether this is a breaking change or not is not my
concern: Petscan and other mass-editing tools based on Widar should play by the
book. I can provide a simple patch which ensures maxlag=5 is applied to all
Widar edits: if someone wants to
Bugreporter added a comment.
PetScan do edits via Widar:
https://github.com/magnusmanske/petscan_rs/blob/master/html/autolist.js
Widar itself does not use maxlag at all as of 2015:
Pintoch added a comment.
@Bugreporter have you got details of where this behaviour is currently
implemented in PetScan? In particular, how do you request the current maxlag
with the MediaWiki API?
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240370
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Pintoch added a comment.
I've had a quick look at the code to see if I could submit a patch for this
myself but it is not clear to me where the edits are done - I have looked in
petscan_rs and wikibase_rs to no avail. Petscan edits might be done in the
browser by sending them to some
