Yeah, I've got a hive query running looking at precisely this problem. Want
me to share any results with Ops@, or just fire it straight at the users
who brought the request to me?


On 16 June 2014 05:23, Faidon Liambotis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sherry,
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:17:55PM -0700, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder
> wrote:
> > Someone in ops should probably look this over:
> >
> >
> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=4931099#Log
> >
> > Some of the linked userpages at Wikisource are receiving more than a
> > quarter million hits per month.  (That's about two orders of magnitude
> more
> > than Jimmy Wales' page at the English Wikipedia.)
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. We haven't had any indications that a DDoS is
> happening so far; if someone's attempting to do that, they're probably
> not doing a very good job :)
>
> As for the hits of those pages: a quick grep revealed hits by IPs
> belonging to a Polish ISP. Probably some bot crawling our projects? I'm
> not sure if we should care :)
>
> (looping in analytics@ as this is probably significant for them)
>
> Regards,
> Faidon
>
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