[Labs-l] Some using a Python framework is relentlessly hammering Harvard sites, resulting an IP range ban.

[Maximilian Doerr]

No it wasn’t.  I set the custom policy and instructed to deny everyone but the given users.  This seems to be a Phabricator bug.

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
ACC Mailing List Moderator
Global User Renamer

> On Dec 4, 2016, at 12:53, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec at wikimedia.cz> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> if it wasn't me, it's good. Please can you give me a link to that phab task when it will be filled? My phab nickname is Urbanecm. Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Best, 
> Martin
> 
> ne 4. 12. 2016 v 18:44 odesílatel Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) <valhallasw at arctus.nl <mailto:valhallasw at arctus.nl>> napsal:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On 4 December 2016 at 18:29, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec at wikimedia.cz <mailto:martin.urbanec at wikimedia.cz>> wrote:
> I was running weblinkchecker.py for whole cswiki (job was submited to the grid at Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:54:24 GMT) because I wished to have a list of deadlinks. This may correspond with the UA (because I used script named weblinkschecker.py). I trusted this script it won't do anything wrong because this script was and still is in standard core package. I also use 3.0-dev version of pywikibot and Python 2.7.6. 
> 
> 
> It probably wasn't you, but it was indeed the standard weblinkchecker causing this. Apparently no throttling is implemented -- just a maximum number of parallel connections. Many parallel connections are fine... but not to the same host. This bot was running on eswiki, and ewsiki has thousands of links to http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/ <http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/>.
> 
> I have contacted the user, and will file a bug for Pywikibot to get this solved on that end.
> 
> Best,
> Merlijn
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