Hoi,
Does this mean that the retrieval of data has priority over updates ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 14:52, Guillaume Lederrey <gleder...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> 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
> <gleder...@wikimedia.org> 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
> >
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> > Guillaume Lederrey
> > Engineering Manager, Search Platform
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > UTC+2 / CEST
>
>
>
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