On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:11:27AM -0500, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Gergo: Either the false anchors are sent to the server or some conniving
> elf has been inserting thousands of fake requests into our logs ;). I'm
> seeing a lot of requests with #mediaviewer/ URLs, some internal and some
> with referers from outside the WMF (implying someone following a link). The
> proposed ways forward are useful, but as Erik M says, reorganising active
> products for the sake of avoiding a pageviews filter is probably not worth
> it unless it's a truly trivial change, so let's just stick with the status
> quo for now and I'll build in a filter.

Given we're already in the realm of the impossible - Oliver, do any of
the internal requests look like the Referer is *the same page* as the
one the #mediaviewer link is for? If so, something is very wrong.

If not, something is only moderately wrong.

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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

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