Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
13 points by manuelfcreis 3 months ago | 3 comments- anotherpaul 3 months agoSeems like a serious issue many sites have nowadays. I really don't want this solved by Captchas everywhere.
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- Handy-Man 3 months agoIf it comes to it, just block all known IP blocks of cloud providers.
- thcipriani 3 months agoThere 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...>
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