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@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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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@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@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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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@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@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@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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