That's completely understandable. I'm just glad to hear that it was nothing
personal! I can confirm that my website is back up, or it will as soon as
the cache finishes invalidating. Thanks for fighting that fire Roan, I'm
sure it took a lot of hard work to get things back.
Thanks,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Roan Kattouw [mailto:roan.kattouw@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 11:18 AM
To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Cc: Wikimedia developers; robert(a)ourwebhome.com
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?
There was an API outage yesterday (Sunday July 14th) between roughly
12:00 and 14:00 UTC (5am-7am Pacific Time). As part of our firefighting we
blocked the IPs that were hitting the API the hardest at the time. We didn't
have time to do outreach because things were on fire and falling over; I'm
very sorry about that. We also should have unblocked these IPs after the
outage was over, but forgot (I was mostly just trying to get things back up
then go back to sleep).
For privacy reasons we can't disclose the IPs we blocked on Sunday. We
unblocked them just now, though, so if your bots are now working again that
would be it :)
I'm very sorry for the inconvenience and lack of follow-up. We generally try
to contact people, but when things are as bad as they were yesterday we have
to act quickly.
Roan
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sending to wikitech-l instead, mediawiki-api is just
for the MediaWiki
API itself, not Wikimedia server stuff.
Alex Monk
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Robert Crowe <robert(a)ourwebhome.com>
wrote:
>
> It looks to me like I was blacklisted for EN Wikipedia API requests.
> My website has been using the API for awhile now, but suddenly I'm
> getting 403 errors coming back. I've tried to follow all the rules,
> but if I've missed something I'm happy to make changes. What
> disturbs me most is that there was no attempt to contact me before
> being blacklisted to let me know there was a problem. Where should I go
to
find out what the problem is?
Thanks,
Robert
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