Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1504358-20121227231305/@comment-3508190-20121230200647

I can certainly see that throttling means quite a lot of extra work, but take a look at AWB or pywikipediabot or botclasses.php or any other bot or bot library: They all use throttling. Their defaults are adjusted for wikipedia however. Wikia seems to be much more liberal in that regard.

On the meta wiki it says:

"Bots running without a bot flag should edit at intervals of over 1 minute. Once they have been authorised and appropriately flagged, they should operate at an absolute minimum interval of 5 seconds (12 edits per minute). Bots should try to avoid running during the busiest hours, as they rapidly use server resources that should be reserved for human readers and editors. During these hours, they should operate at intervals of 20 seconds (3 edits per minute) to conserve resources."

Wikia is fine with edits once per second according to Randomtime.