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