https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56840
--- Comment #2 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > My best guess is that some third-party crawler is trying to obtain the titles > of all articles by paging through Special:Allpages --- and, as we found out > the hard way --- generating the list that was is O(N^3) where N is how many > pages into the list you are. No crawler or similarly automated process should be hitting index.php?title=Special:AllPages. MediaWiki has a robust Web API at api.php?action=query&list=allpages. If a particular crawler or two are disrupting production, blocking those crawlers by IP or User-Agent would be the best temporary fix. Though obviously we'll need to evaluate and address the underlying query issue as well. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
