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Liz Probert<p>How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/</span><span class="invisible">how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/</span></a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Crawlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crawlers</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructure</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/KnowledgeAsAService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeAsAService</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/KnowledgeContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeContent</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Operations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Operations</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Scraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scraping</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/ScrapingBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScrapingBots</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Traffic</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/WikimediaFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikimediaFoundation</span></a>, <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/WikimediaProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikimediaProjects</span></a></p>
kanmastodonsvenska<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aktivismoEstasMiaLuo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.technology/@Wraptile" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Wraptile</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/QuoraFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuoraFail</span></a> yes indeed. Sometimes I find a site or two blocking the archival of their site.</p><p>I mean its bad for them, less publicity, so that Quora does this might mean they are <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/WelcomingDefeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WelcomingDefeat</span></a> or they have already <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/acknowledged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acknowledged</span></a> their defeat internally and just waiting for the site to get less and less traffic over time.</p><p>Well blocking <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> is 'immature'. <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/WikimediaProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikimediaProjects</span></a> all allow Tor, though they never like people editing with any proxy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/SpellingErrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpellingErrors</span></a></p>