Wiki server errors over the past day or so

[muzik]

Is anyone else getting these? I often get one of two error pages, as well as extremely annoying session expiry "issues" when trying to submit edits.

[muzik]

The two error pages in question:

theblackone.png (39.5 KiB) Viewed 1891 times

thewhiteone.png (42.1 KiB) Viewed 1891 times

The forums don't appear to be hit nearly as hard, if at all. Is this some sort of DDoS attack or selfish LLM scraper?

[hotdogPi]

I also got a few HTML-only page loads yesterday.

[dvgrn]

I've gotten a few "This site is experiencing difficulties, please try again in a few minutes" pages this morning, along with much slower average page load times even when the load is ultimately successful.

[muzik]

I got one error while trying to load this thread earlier today, but this may have been an isolated case since I've had far fewer issues on the forums compared to the wiki.

Others on Discord have stated that a disproportionate amount of traffic is specifically going to the FAQ page, so I don't know what exactly the situation is. Have any of the mod team been in contact with Nathaniel as of late?

[muzik]

It's almost impossible to edit the wiki in its current state. Nathaniel doesn't appear to have been active for months at this point, so I don't know if he's even aware of just how bad things are right now.

[b-engine]

Must've been the bots again.

I think it's possible to track the IPs of the traffic, but I am not an admin even if I know how to do that.

[b-engine]

I think we should just block all the LLM (or whatever) bots that causes most of the LifeWiki problems. The robots.txt of ConwayLife isn't really comprehensive compared to that of Wikipedia (although it might be due to the sheer scale of WP).

We don't need AI to take away our "jobs" here anyway.

[Neocaridina]

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[b-engine]

Someone need to contact Nathaniel himself to inform about the problem. (I wouldn't like to do that for privacy reasons)
Also, maybe a second administrator is needed, ideally someone who's active here.

[muzik]

I haven't seen any issues on the wiki today at all. Has something changed?

[hotdogPi]

I haven't seen any issues on the wiki today at all. Has something changed?

It fixed itself about a week ago, but we have no idea why.