Post #3248950
2026-03-27 14:16 UTC
@samwilson@wikis.world @vrandecic@mas.to @kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de in my case blocking all expensive urls for anonymous users worked during the first part of 2025, but later even this was not enough, things got very hostile (vast numbers of requests from random IP's). At that point Cloudflare and mod_evasive did not help either.
Now the wiki is for authenticated users only.
There is maniacal level of greed out there. Feels like the end of an era and we have the "AI" bros to thank for that.
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@samwilson@wikis.world 2026-03-28 07:03
@openrisk@mastodon.social @vrandecic@mas.to @kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de mod_evasive is only good when it's lots of the same IP addresses. But yeah it's all pretty demoralising! :( I don't blame you for just taking the whole thing private, I've been wondering the same thing, but so far have always been able to just block more and more of the expensive URLs. Did you experiment with the HTML file cache? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache