https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4978348 
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F4978348> Done.

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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> On Dec 4, 2016, at 11:49, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Maximilian,
> 
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/file/upload/ 
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/file/upload/> allows you to specify 
> 'Visible to'. You can select 'Custom policy' and select the relevant users, 
> i.e.
> <image.png>
> 
> In the meanwhile, I'll try to figure out if I can get some information from 
> netstat.
> 
> Cheers,
> Merlijn
> 
> On 4 December 2016 at 17:36, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Sure, how would I be able to restrict it’s visibility?  Harvard is kind 
> enough to unblock, if the culprit is stopped.
> 
>  
> 
> As for exact URLs, it’s the entire domains owned by Harvard.  But the access 
> log can provide specifics.  The Python script is attempting to get all 
> 140,000 pieces of data about minor planets from www.minorplanetcenter.net 
> <http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/> according to IT, who also claims that 
> such an action the way being done now would severely tie up their servers for 
> quite a while, which they cannot afford.
> 
>  
> 
> Cyberpower678
> 
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
> 
> Mailing List Moderator
> 
> Global User Renamer
> 
>  
> 
> From: Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 10:59
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Some using a Python framework is relentlessly hammering 
> Harvard sites, resulting an IP range ban.
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Maximilian,
> 
>  
> 
> On 4 December 2016 at 05:51, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Would the user who is querying the Harvard sites for planet data, that is 
> carrying the UA “weblinkchecker Pywikibot/3.0-dev (g7171) requests/2.2.1 
> Python/2.7.6.final.0”, please stop, or severely throttle the GET requests.  
> It’s making 168 requests to that site a minute, and consequently they banned 
> labs from accessing it, according to the IT department there, who kindly 
> shared with me the access log.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Would you be able to share the access log with the Tools admins (say, via 
> Phabricator, only shared to Yuvi, Bryan Davis, Andrew Bogott, Chase, scfc and 
> me)? From the combination of external IP and timestamp we may be able to 
> pinpoint which tool was causing this.
> 
>  
> 
> Can you also clarify which exact URLs we are talking about?
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Merlijn
> 
> 

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