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
<glederrey@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
>
> --
> Guillaume Lederrey
> Engineering Manager, Search Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
> UTC+2 / CEST



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Guillaume Lederrey
Engineering Manager, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC+2 / CEST

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