Hi
more possible bandwith mis-use? (I'm not actively searching for these, but I am reserching some particular subjects on search engines and for some keywords lots of Wiki clones are comming up and some make me suspicious).
This one seems to be dynamically proxying (?) direct from the Wikipedia servers. You can see the "Recent Changes" live:
http://anguilla.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha... http://dominica.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha...
Images are coming direct from Wikipedia servers too.
Also, I see pages like this: http://dominica.caribbean-forum.com/w/index.php?title=Saddleback_High_School... with no GNU / Copyright information.
- Lars -
Lars Sanders wrote:
This one seems to be dynamically proxying (?) direct from the Wikipedia servers. You can see the "Recent Changes" live:
http://anguilla.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha... http://dominica.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha...
Got em.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
There seem to be a lot of these... is there not some Apache or otherwise rule that can eliminate people who simply take Wikipedia images with no accreditation?
Or, is it super-easy to add sites to the "using bandwidth without contributing the the community" list?
On 8/3/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Lars Sanders wrote:
This one seems to be dynamically proxying (?) direct from the Wikipedia servers. You can see the "Recent Changes" live:
http://anguilla.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha... http://dominica.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Recentcha...
Got em.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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Tom Ritchford wrote:
There seem to be a lot of these... is there not some Apache or otherwise rule that can eliminate people who simply take Wikipedia images with no accreditation?
Usually the cheapest trick is to look through the logs for image downloads where the "referrer" is not another page on your own site.
Of course you can work around this, but it catches the really obvious stuff.
Someone with access to the wikipedia logs could probably troll through and catch the worst offenders quite easily
Ed W
Ed W wrote:
Tom Ritchford wrote:
There seem to be a lot of these... is there not some Apache or otherwise rule that can eliminate people who simply take Wikipedia images with no accreditation?
Usually the cheapest trick is to look through the logs for image downloads where the "referrer" is not another page on your own site.
as it happens, i wrote a script to do exactly this a few months ago. the intent was to find how much bandwidth this wastes (answer: not actually very much), but it could probably be extended to create a "worst referer" list of some kind...
http://www.knams.wikimedia.org/~kate/logmon.pl if anyone wants to have a go.
Ed W
kate.
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