Archivebot currently directly calls the API to get 'january'-'december' and 'jan'-'dec' messages. There should be a function to get (and cache) a large number of mediawiki messages in a single API request.

Currently used code in Archivebot:

qg = pywikibot.data.api.QueryGenerator(

site=self.site,	
meta="allmessages",	
ammessages='|'.join(months_long + months_short)

)

Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: normal