Legoktm added a comment.
Having helped with investigating a WDQS outage caused by a *single* user once, I have a lot of sympathy for why we'd want authentication, but I worry that putting auth walls up for any access at all is a bad step (we've long had similar discussions about this for the MediaWiki API too). I think it would be helpful to have pointers to earlier conversations where less drastic measures like increased rate limits, or a split of unauthenticated vs authenticated traffic were considered and why they were deemed unworkable. And what resources are needed to offer this. I read the announcement, and personally I would take a reduced SLO + no auth required over having better uptime with authentication required. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290300 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Legoktm Cc: Legoktm, Fuzheado, LucasWerkmeister, ttaylor, CBogen, Gehel, Aklapper, Zache, BPirkle, sdkim, hnowlan, RKemper, Zbyszko, Invadibot, MPhamWMF, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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