Manual:$wgRateLimits

Rate limiter: $wgRateLimits
Simple rate limiter options to brake edit floods.
Introduced in version:	1.4.5
Removed in version:	still in use
Allowed values:
Default value:	(see below)

Other settings: Alphabetical | By Function

Details

This setting provides a simple rate limiter to brake floods of edits and other potentially destructive behavior, like sending out emails to other users. It sets a maximum number of actions allowed in the given number of seconds; after that, the violating client receives HTTP 500 error pages until the period elapses.

For example, to set a maximum of 4 edits per 60 seconds for "newbie" users, add the following:

$wgRateLimits['edit']['newbie'] = array( 4, 60 );

This option does not work if a memory caching tool (other than memcached) is used - see bug 20595.

Default value

array(
    'edit' => array(
        'anon'   => null, // for any and all anonymous edits (aggregate)
        'user'   => null, // for each logged-in user
        'newbie' => null, // for each recent account; overrides 'user'
        'ip'     => null, // for each anon and recent account
        'subnet' => null, // ... with final octet removed
    ),
    'move' => array(
        'user'   => null,
        'newbie' => null,
        'ip'     => null,
        'subnet' => null,
    ),
    'mailpassword' => array(
         'anon' => null,
    ),
    'emailuser' => array(
         'user' => null,
    ),
);

Version differences

• The 'mailpassword' array was added in MediaWiki 1.7.0.
• The 'emailuser' array was added in MediaWiki 1.10.0.

See also

• Manual:Edit throttling
• $wgRateLimitLog
• $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups
• noratelimit user right