Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Citations/More capacity for Citation bot/Proposal

• Problem: Citation bot is very powerful, but needs hugely expanded capacity to meet demand and stop requests timing out.
• Proposed solution: 1/ A new front end queuing system for Citation bot, similar to that used by InternetArchiveBot, which allows much bigger jobs and gives priority to single-page requests; 2/ Many more threads than the current limit of four; 3/ enhanced capacity for the Zotero servers on which Citation bot relies for filling bare URLs
• Who would benefit: Editors trying to improve references, especially complex refs such as those to scholarly journals, whether on single articles or in batch.
• More comments: This has been repeatedly discussed at User talk:Citation bot, but the excellent maintainer faces hurdles which he cannot surmount: see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Citation_bot&oldid=1064839514#And_failure_is_the_usual_option_again
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• Proposer: BrownHairedGirl (talk) 18:42, 10 January 2022 (UTC)