I discovered in the awstats statistics for www.wikimedia.it that a significant portion of our traffic comes from https://tools.wmflabs.org/status/ (created after T140884): about 4000 requests so far this month.
I don't see what benefit this tool possibly has for us, but I'd like to avoid pollution of our statistics, particularly for the main page. Please request an URL other than the main page (e.g. /feed/ or /wp-login.php) and/or reduce the frequency and/or switch to a system which doesn't pollute webserver logs.
Note that fail2ban may automatically block your IP any time.