Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects(diff.wikimedia.org)

13 points by manuelfcreis 1 year ago | 3 comments

Seems like a serious issue many sites have nowadays. I really don't want this solved by Captchas everywhere.

Handy-Man 1 year ago | |

If it comes to it, just block all known IP blocks of cloud providers.

thcipriani 1 year ago | | |

There are likely a number of beneficial bots[0] running from cloud providers. And residential proxies are also widely available for very determined scrapers.

[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>