Hi! On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 10:49:31AM -0700, preston wrote: >Hi, I f-botched a signup on wiki.debian.org fumbling with my password >manager and got blocked. It would be awesome if someone could clear my >name and give me another shot. > >184.179.160.226
Thanks for contacting us. Due to massive abuse of resources by morons scraping the entire web for data for their LLMs, we've ended up blocking various parts of the net from accessing the wiki. Recently, however, those same morons have made things worse by using botnets to access resources from residential IP addresses scattered all over the world. We've been analysing traffic to identify IPs involved and block those too, but sometimes that isn't 100% accurate. We're refining that analysis over time to make it work better. Checking our logs, it looks like our anti-bot checks incorrectly blocked you here. I've removed the block for you now, -- Steve McIntyre [email protected] Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org [email protected]
