Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?

2013-07-15 Thread Alex Monk
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 rob...@ourwebhome.com wrote: It looks to me like I was blacklisted for EN Wikipedia API requests. My website has been using

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?

2013-07-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?

2013-07-15 Thread Robert Crowe
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