Hello all! We now have an incident report [1] describing in more detail this overload of Wikidata Query Service. The ban of python-request is still in effect and will remain so until we have a throttling solution in place for generic user agents.
Thanks all for your patience! Guillaume [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20190613-wdqs On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 7:52 PM Guillaume Lederrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all! > > We are currently dealing with a bot overloading the Wikidata Query > Service. This bot does not look actively malicious, but does create > enough load to disrupt the service. As a stop gap measure, we had to > deny access to all bots using python-request user agent. > > As a reminder, any bot should use a user agent that allows to identify > it [1]. If you have trouble accessing WDQS, please check that you are > following those guidelines. > > More information and a proper incident report will be communicated as > soon as we are on top of things again. > > Thanks for your understanding! > > Guillaume > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy > > -- > Guillaume Lederrey > Engineering Manager, Search Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > UTC+2 / CEST -- Guillaume Lederrey Engineering Manager, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC+2 / CEST _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
