On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > When I briefly ran a MediaWiki installation myself, the amount of spam > > traffic it attracted was incredible - and now, years after taking it down,
> indeed seeing that about half of all requests are from the bot > that trains ChatGPT, and the other half is split between a bot > from Amazon, a bot training Claude, something called "Thinkbot" I wouldn't even count bots like those, which are only trying to *read* the site. The problem for me was bots attempting to *write* advertising onto the Wiki. They seemed to have fairly smart MediaWiki-specific scripts for creating accounts and using the newly created accounts to post spam pages. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
