Hoi,
Thank you for resolving this :)
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-tech-barnstar.html
Thanks,
     GerardM


On 4 December 2013 22:03, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:

> More news:
>
> It turns out the DDOS was inadvertent and caused by an ill-considered
> addition to several projects rather than malice: a script hosted on tool
> labs intended to tie Wikidata to search results was made to load on
> every page view rather than just upon searching, causing every hit to a
> page on the projects to cause the user's client to connect to tool labs.
>
> Obviously, tool labs does not scale well to that many requests.  :-)
>
> It will probably take several hours for things to return to normal as we
> hunt down and remove those loads and cached versions expire from
> endusers' caches.
>
> -- Marc
>
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