Le samedi 25 juillet 2026 à 16:13 +0100, Graham King a écrit : > I'm getting "403 Forbidden" from nginx at > https://wiki.lilypond.community/ > > any ideas? > -- Graham
Hi, wiki admin here. The wiki has suffered a lot of lags and outages lately. It improved things when I blocked some crawlers and especially the one for Meta's AI two weeks ago, but the outages have still reappeared. I noticed an outage yesterday and, as a stop-gap measure, blocked an IP range that was making large numbers of bot-like requests without announcing it in the User-Agent. Today there was an outage again and I didn't see any IP range standing out in number of requests. It was also a bit surprising to see the wiki overloaded because the number of requests was not that high (on the order of 10 requests/second, variable depending on the moment, and not counting blocked bots), so this afternoon I took a look at speeding up the wiki, for which I temporarily implemented a block of all requests except those from my own IP in order to be able to actually access it and test its performance, and that's probably the moment where you wrote the above. Now there's more caching, and I also temporarily blocked all requests to the page Special:RecentChangesLinked, which were making up the vast majority of requests, certainly from bots again (though distributed in the IP address space). So the wiki is back… for now. I don't know how long this will last and it's an unsatisfactory state to have this page inaccessible, but I'm doing what I can with the time I have, sorry. Jean (Please keep me CCed in replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list.)
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