Re: [Cloud] Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis

Shouldn't this sort of autoblock_whitelist be universal for such an important IP address. It is not only Commons, Wikidata, Meta and enWP that utilise bots at Toolforge. Having to do this at 10s to 100s of wiki is just an interesting approach. Could we at least have a note to all wikis thro

Re: [Cloud] [Ops] Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis

On 1/29/21 10:29 AM, Amir Sarabadani wrote: This is sorta (under-)documented in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits I made a patch for it but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. Excellent, thanks! Could you please share

Re: [Cloud] [Ops] Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis

This is sorta (under-)documented in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits I made a patch for it but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:21 AM Arturo Borrero Gonzalez < aborr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 1/28/21 9:50 PM, Martin Urbanec wrote: > > Hi Artur

Re: [Cloud] [Ops] Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis

On 1/28/21 9:50 PM, Martin Urbanec wrote: Hi Arturo, a quick question: MediaWIki has a strict limit on bad logins. If all of WMCS will be NATed, that would mean that /any/ bot having too many bad login attempts could block all other bots from logging in. Is that prevented through technical me