[07:24:11] Hi, I'm planning on developing a library for a specific wiki, but I plan to make it somewhat general-use, so I don't know if it would be for interactive use or not (unless I provide the option, I guess) so should I provide the maxlag parameter when making requests at all/as an option/as default? [07:26:18] Honestly, i wouldn't worry too much unless its making lots of automated write requests [07:26:28] but you could do something like maxlag=5 just to be safe [07:26:50] maxlag will be ignored on wikis not using master/replica set up, which is pretty much 99% of wikis that aren't wikimedia websites [07:27:10] Ah right I forgot to mention that, it's only for GET requests, no editing [07:27:59] and afaik the wiki i'm targetting is using mediawiki, it's hololive.wiki [07:33:21] I mean, most mediawiki installs don't use fancy DB replication because it only makese sense when you get to a certain size [07:33:29] wikipedia does, but most other mediawiki installs don't [07:33:44] so on those other websites, typically maxlag has no effect [07:34:06] It's a mirahaze wiki, so they probably will use it [07:34:34] So if I want to be sure, I'd just have to ask the admins of that specific wiki, correct? [07:35:04] https://hololive.wiki/w/api.php?maxlag=-1&action=query suggests they don't [07:36:02] That_Guy977: if you're only doing get requests, it probably doesn't really matter. maxlag checks replica lag, which is mostly affected by write requests [07:36:13] oh, so that's why I couldn't get the error as the examples stated with hololive.wiki lol [07:36:17] alright, thanks [07:36:40] in comparision https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?maxlag=-1&action=query gives an error [07:38:20] Also, would I have to do the series vs parallel request stuff considering I'm only doing get requests? [07:38:46] And the bundled/bulk request stuff for seperate requests from the end user [07:39:31] Ultimately that's more a policy thing and its up to that wiki what they allow [07:39:41] Alright, thanks [07:39:54] But generally speaking, its more polite to do the requests in series, especially if you're making a bunch and its non-interactive [07:40:21] I'll keep that in mind, thanks [07:40:34] like doing 200 requests in parallel can overwhelm a wiki, particularly a smaller one [07:41:58] Oh yeah that makes sense [08:19:13] Reedy: if the rest of the disasters are common to other places too, can we get a +2 and backport for that patch?