e.g. https://fa.m.wikinews.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D9%87%D9%94_%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%84%DB%8C
tries to load https://tools.wmflabs.org/weather/api/v1
which fails because, well, that tool doesn't exist. To make matters worse, the page retries multiple times per second (!).
This was hammering tools.admin, causing tools.wmflabs.org itself to become slow. I've re-started the weather webservice, so the load is not gone, but at least less visible.
Sinkholed with
.lighttd.conf
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/[^?]*(\?(.*))?$" => "/index.php?$1&full_request=$0"
)and
<?php header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *"); echo 'No content';
The script (https://fa.wikinews.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C:Gadget-Weather.js, found by @faidon) also did not back off after 404s...
@Krinkle disabled the gadget after discussions on IRC and @valhallasw is posting a message to the village pump
url: '//tools.wmflabs.org/weather/api/v1',