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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vrandecic@mas.to ("Denny Vrandečić") wrote:

While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.

Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/