I'm creating this bug after a suggestion was made on ptwiki's anti-vandalism project[1]: there could be a message[2] showing the amount of time (seconds?) which the user will have to wait until the edit is allowed. This kind of feature is used e.g. on download sites, when the user is not registered.
[2] Example in Portuguese:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=36525547&uselang=en
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Is this *required* for rate limits to be useful for pt.wiki? (Please find out discussing on the wiki.)
What the user currently gets is an error page saying the action was blocked, after which you have to choose "back" in your browser and submit again. It's not super-friendly but it's not supposed to happen to normal users, it does the job and is relatively easy to act upon for the user (unlike loops of CAPTCHA failures).
Isn't it good enough for slowing down vandalism? I'm just trying to figure out the use case.
(In reply to comment #2)
Is this *required* for rate limits to be useful for pt.wiki?
I don't think this is required for anything (and I agree with it being marked as "low priority").
I just though I should suggest it on Bugzilla, in case some developer thinks it is useful and wants to implement it (because on-wiki suggestions tend to be forgotten).
Ok, thanks for clarifying. With normal configurations, I think this (or something like this) would benefit especially those power users who happen to make a lot of changes in a short period of time but happen not to have noratelimits permission.
It's easy to forget it, but rarely it happened to me that I wasn't sysop and got a bit frustrated by the rate limits error messages.
Is this still an issue? We definitely show the cooldown time during login throttling, not sure about other types.
@He7d3r: No reply; assuming this is not an issue anymore per last comment. If it is, please reopen and elaborate. Thanks!