> We tracked it back to bots hitting our wiki and trying to make > anonymous edits. The bots would try to make edits, and that would > spin-up that useless Wiki Editor from Wikimedia. The edit would > eventually fail (during Save) because the bot was not authenticated. > I seem to recall we were seeing between 3 and 7 edits per second from > bots.
AFAICT the only workable avenue is to limit web sites to static pages. Anything that requires more resources from the server needs to be firmly protected behind many layers of defenses. 🙁 - Stefan
