OpenRefine doesn't properly handle MediaWiki rate limits

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download OpenRefine to run on your computer
2. Create at least ten rows with new items for import into Wikidata
3. Use the "Upload edits to Wikidata" function

Current Results

The progress bar reaches 100%. The process seemingly finishes quickly, but only the first few edits and creations are performed.

The log shows the following text:

15:39:45.006 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-csrf-token (336909ms)
15:39:45.014 [                   refine] POST /command/wikidata/perform-wikibase-edits (8ms)
15:39:45.019 [..mWikibaseEditsOperation] Performing edits (5ms)
15:39:45.019 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] Requesting documents (0ms)
15:39:45.891 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (872ms)
15:39:46.400 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (509ms)
15:39:46.882 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (482ms)
15:39:47.396 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (514ms)
15:39:47.886 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (490ms)
15:39:48.330 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (444ms)
15:39:48.859 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (529ms)
15:39:49.618 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (759ms)
15:39:50.146 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (528ms)
15:39:50.147 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 4336 milliseconds. (1ms)
15:39:55.053 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [failed-save]: The save has failed. (4906ms)
15:39:55.312 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (259ms)
15:39:55.312 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 88 milliseconds. (0ms)
15:39:55.638 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (326ms)
15:39:55.639 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 244 milliseconds. (1ms)
15:39:56.171 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (532ms)
15:39:56.171 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 226 milliseconds. (0ms)
15:39:56.746 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (575ms)
15:39:56.746 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 141 milliseconds. (0ms)
15:39:57.186 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (440ms)
15:39:57.186 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 145 milliseconds. (0ms)
15:39:57.590 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (404ms)
15:39:57.591 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 269 milliseconds. (1ms)
15:39:58.120 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (529ms)
15:39:58.121 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 498 milliseconds. (1ms)
15:39:58.871 [..ting.EditBatchProcessor] MediaWiki error while editing [no-automatic-entity-id]: Cannot automatically assign ID: As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. (750ms)
15:39:58.873 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 4610 milliseconds. (2ms)
15:40:03.754 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 300 milliseconds. (4881ms)
15:40:04.334 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 67 milliseconds. (580ms)
15:40:04.778 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 105 milliseconds. (444ms)
15:40:05.201 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 197 milliseconds. (423ms)
15:40:05.701 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 187 milliseconds. (500ms)
15:40:06.250 [..baseapi.WbEditingAction] We are editing too fast. Pausing for 82 milliseconds. (549ms)
15:40:07.089 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-history (839ms)
15:40:07.116 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-project-metadata (27ms)
15:40:07.137 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-models (21ms)
15:40:07.155 [                   refine] POST /command/core/get-all-preferences (18ms)
15:40:07.185 [                   refine] POST /command/core/get-rows (30ms)
15:40:07.308 [                   refine] POST /command/core/compute-facets (123ms)
15:40:07.481 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-preference (173ms)

Clearly, OpenRefine understands that it's editing too quickly, but instead of waiting the specified "few minutes", it continues trying to make edits which don't go through. Additionally, these errors are not reported in the user interface.

Expected Behavior

All edits from OpenRefine go through, even if this means the process is delayed because of rate limiting.

If that cannot be done, the fact that some edits failed should be reported in the user interface so the user is not misled.

Versions

• Operating System: Fedora Linux 38
• Browser Version: Firefox 116.0
• JRE or JDK Version: openjdk version "17.0.8" 2023-07-18
• OpenRefine: OpenRefine 3.7.4

The report points to the Wikidata upload function and logs from EditBatchProcessor and WbEditingAction, but names no files or tests. Start by tracing that upload flow and its handling of MediaWiki rate-limit errors; done means rate-limited edits are handled as expected or failed edits are clearly reported in the user interface.