Forum:What are rate limits?

Hi. I'm wondering what Rate Limits are. Can someone please explain? Thanks! Jeffwang16  (Talk)   (Contribs.)  Email 14:07, July 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * The ones listed for admins under Special:ListGroupRights as "Not be affected by rate limits". I think it stops you from making a certain amount of a certain kind of edit in a certain period of time.  For example I have noticed that while moving pages on a wiki that I'm not an admin, I could only move about 5 pages then it stopped me and made me wait(a certain number of minutes I can't remember) until I could start moving pages again.  I don't think Wikia has the exact limits listed anywhere though, and maybe they don't want to for anti-spam/vandalism reasons.--Sxerks 14:39, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits