On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Khalida BEN SIDI AHMED send.to.khalida@gmail.com wrote:
In fact, I'm downloading now enwiki-latest-pagelinks.sql.gz in my laptop ( wifi connection). All the links of Wikipedia are forbidden either in my laptop or in my pc (linked internet connection). I stopped the downlod and the links are accessible.
As I recall, dumps.wikimedia.org has a relatively low concurrency limit. Something like 2 or 4 simultaneous downloads. After that, all further connections give a 403 error until earlier connections finish. If you are downloading a number of dump files, it is pretty easy to try to open more downloads at the same time than the limit will allow.
I suspect that is what happened here.
-Robert Rohde