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Will Wikipedia Ban IPs for excessive GET requests

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I'm developing an interactive Wikipedia exploration tool to be produced by students as a part of an intro to CS assignment on trees.

The assignment involves performing many get requests to recursively find all wiki links from a given wiki page.

Given that this course is expected to have ~1500 students and each test a student may run could involve ~10k get requests I'm starting to think that this is verging on irresponsible.

If anyone knows if Wikipedia has a specific policy for this or just some general guidelines on how many get requests are polite that would be very much appreciated.


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