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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
