You would have to contact Wikimedia's Site Reliability Engineering team
with a request like this. Your best way forward is probably to file a task
in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> and tag it with
#Operations.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM Frank Wunderlich <info@tagorama.rocks>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia
> ActionApi  to search for articles at the current location of a user.
> Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app.
> It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still
> installations out there.
> That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all
> backend services, that the app is using.
> Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia
> servers and not via a proxy under my control.
> The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to
> identify itself:
>
> tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/; info@tagorama.rocks)
>
> Is there any way for you to block requests from this app?
> Who would I contact?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Frank Wunderlich
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