Ring of Brodgar Wiki

[mvgulik]

RoB-wiki can be considered down and out for the count at this moment.

Spiff-911 was called.
ETA: unknown.

I figure it could potentially be permanent depending on the reason. But what else is new, right!

[WowGain]

sounds like its time to start looking at getting an archive ready for the wiki and looking for alternative hosting

[mvgulik]

As expected the latest RoB-wiki problems where wiki-scrapers related.
Or in other words: Only a few egocentrically individuals spoiling it for the rest. (Just like so much else in the current human world)

[The_Blode]

"the internet isn't a big truck you just dump stuff on, it-it's a series of tubes"

idk why that felt relevant

[mvgulik]

RoB-wiki was updated with some additional countermeasures and is back up.

[mvgulik]

Seems some wiki scrapers took little time to try it again. But the countermeasures also seem to work.

[mvgulik]

In case anyone cares, the wiki has been hit by 105k unique visitors in 24 hours and 103k of them are bots from China AND that's just a fraction of what they were doing a week ago.
They were scraping the diff pages endlessly ..., so now you can't hit those unless you're authenticated.

[sMartins]

They were scraping the diff pages endlessly ..., so now you can't hit those unless you're authenticated.

What? Could you please explain the meaning of this in more detail for those who are not familiar with the subject?

EDIT

Are you saying that we will finally see a fully functional H&H by China?

[sMartins]

Rumour says it will be called Yin & Yang ....

There is already a logo too

[XBBW]

What is the difference between rummaging and theft as both allow to take stuff from containers?