https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66112
--- Comment #8 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Matthew Flaschen from comment #6) > (In reply to christian from comment #5) > > It seems to be a "Windows with (Firefox or Chrome)" issue. > > Or a bot spoofing their user-agent to pretend to be such. I checked that. And while of course, we cannot rule it out, it's not too plausible to me. The number of requests is following a strong weekly pattern. For each day, the client IPs fall in between 200 to 500 different /24 IP groups. (Basically all matching the country for the relevant wikis. So Brazil IPs fetching ptwiki, Venezuelan IPs fetching eswiki.) Sure. A /smart/ botnet still could implement a weekly pattern and grab many relevant different IPs that are correctly geolocated. But then ... a smart botnet would not misinterpret data uris. And even if they did by accident, such a smart botnet would notice and fix it. So I'd rule bots out. -- 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
