diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/site.py b/earwigbot/wiki/site.py
index 1f4d277..555a84b 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/site.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/site.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from json import loads
 from os.path import expanduser
 from re import escape as re_escape, match as re_match
 from StringIO import StringIO
-from time import sleep
+from time import sleep, time
 from urllib import unquote_plus, urlencode
 from urllib2 import build_opener, HTTPCookieProcessor, URLError
 from urlparse import urlparse
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ class Site(object):
                  article_path=None, script_path=None, sql=None,
                  namespaces=None, login=(None, None), cookiejar=None,
                  user_agent=None, use_https=False, assert_edit=None,
-                 maxlag=None, search_config=(None, None)):
+                 maxlag=None, wait_between_queries=5,
+                 search_config=(None, None)):
         """Constructor for new Site instances.
 
         This probably isn't necessary to call yourself unless you're building a
@@ -106,7 +107,9 @@ class Site(object):
         self._use_https = use_https
         self._assert_edit = assert_edit
         self._maxlag = maxlag
+        self._wait_between_queries = wait_between_queries
         self._max_retries = 5
+        self._last_query_time = 0
 
         # Attributes used for SQL queries:
         self._sql_data = sql
@@ -172,9 +175,10 @@ class Site(object):
 
         We'll encode the given params, adding format=json along the way, as
         well as &assert= and &maxlag= based on self._assert_edit and _maxlag.
-        We make the request through self._opener, which has built-in cookie
-        support via self._cookiejar, a User-Agent (wiki.constants.USER_AGENT),
-        and Accept-Encoding set to "gzip".
+        Additionally, we'll sleep a bit if the last query was made less than
+        self._wait_between_queries seconds ago. The request is made through
+        self._opener, which has cookie support (self._cookiejar), a User-Agent
+        (wiki.constants.USER_AGENT), and Accept-Encoding set to "gzip".
 
         Assuming everything went well, we'll gunzip the data (if compressed),
         load it as a JSON object, and return it.
@@ -204,6 +208,13 @@ class Site(object):
         if self._maxlag:  # If requested, don't overload the servers
             params["maxlag"] = self._maxlag
 
+        since_last_query = time() - self._last_query_time  # Throttling support
+        if since_last_query < self._wait_between_queries:
+            wait_time = self._wait_between_queries - since_last_query
+            logger.debug("Throttled: waiting {0} seconds".format(wait_time))
+            sleep(wait_time)
+        self._last_query_time = time()
+
         data = urlencode(params)
         logger.debug("{0} -> {1}".format(url, data))
 
diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/sitesdb.py b/earwigbot/wiki/sitesdb.py
index 1f525f1..c6e3f57 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/sitesdb.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/sitesdb.py
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ class SitesDB(object):
         use_https = config.wiki.get("useHTTPS", False)
         assert_edit = config.wiki.get("assert")
         maxlag = config.wiki.get("maxlag")
+        wait_between_queries = config.wiki.get("waitTime", 5)
         search_config = config.wiki.get("search")
 
         if user_agent:
@@ -169,7 +170,8 @@ class SitesDB(object):
                     sql=sql, namespaces=namespaces, login=login,
                     cookiejar=cookiejar, user_agent=user_agent,
                     use_https=use_https, assert_edit=assert_edit,
-                    maxlag=maxlag, search_config=search_config)
+                    maxlag=maxlag, wait_between_queries=wait_between_queries,
+                    search_config=search_config)
 
     def _get_site_name_from_sitesdb(self, project, lang):
         """Return the name of the first site with the given project and lang.
@@ -320,13 +322,15 @@ class SitesDB(object):
         use_https = config.wiki.get("useHTTPS", False)
         assert_edit = config.wiki.get("assert")
         maxlag = config.wiki.get("maxlag")
+        wait_between_queries = config.wiki.get("waitTime", 5)
         search_config = config.wiki.get("search")
 
-        # Create a temp Site object to log in and load the other attributes:
+        # Create a Site object to log in and load the other attributes:
         site = Site(base_url=base_url, script_path=script_path, sql=sql,
                     login=login, cookiejar=cookiejar, user_agent=user_agent,
                     use_https=use_https, assert_edit=assert_edit,
-                    maxlag=maxlag, search_config=search_config)
+                    maxlag=maxlag, wait_between_queries=wait_between_queries,
+                    search_config=search_config)
 
         self._add_site_to_sitesdb(site)
         return site