Anthony, >> Yes, we will ban all IPs participating in this. > Guess it's just a matter of time until *reading* Wikipedia is unavailable to > large portions of the world.
Your insight is entirely bogus here. > And "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT > <http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents.asp#>5.1)", is pretty much > useless, unless you've already identified the spammer through some other > process. It isn't useless. It clearly shows that the user is acting malicious by having automated software that disguises under common user agent. > Do any of the other major websites completely block traffic when they see > blank user agents? I don't know about UA policies but... Various websites have various techniques to deal with such problems. On the other hand, no other major website has such scarcity of hardware and/or human resources as Wikipedia, at such exposure and API complexity provided. BR, Domas _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
