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Author: dasch

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Tahts not really a bug, but I've seen on my page that there are many visites on Spezial:Ask with somehow strang parameters. So there are Bots how are trying to spam on the Spezial:Ask pages, maybe there is a possibility to omit this


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:20 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz15474.

Could you specify what it is that you want? SMW cannot prevent web accesses to certain URLs on your site.

dasch wrote:

  1. My Intention was to point at this problem
  2. I dont't know how such "queries are handeld"

"http://www.wecowi.org/view/Spezial:Ask?title=Spezial%3AAsk&q=&po=%3FComment2%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fholiday-inn-downtown-san-antonio-763.html+holiday+inn+downtown+san+antonio%2C+7375%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Ffem-pops-207.html+fem+pops%2C%3D(%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fdescriptive-inferential-727.html+descriptive+inferential%2C++%3D-PP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fbadkamer-en-language-language-nl-showroom-728.html+badkamer+en+language+language+nl+showroom%2C++045678%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Frocky-river-high-school-ohio-353.html+rocky+river+high+school+ohio%2C++58462%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fcar-comparison-new-price-354.html+car+comparison+new+price%2C++%3E%3A)%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fholiday-dinner-recipe-257.html+holiday+dinner+recipe%2C++%3DOOO%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fkentucky-bass-federation-690.html+kentucky+bass+federation%2C++akygrx%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fein-number-verify-381.html+ein+number+verify%2C++936240%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Freservoir-dog-poster-684.html+reservoir+dog+poster%2C++55727%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Ftweety-valentine-wallpaper-98.html+tweety+valentine+wallpaper%2C++rvtq%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fshawn-parker-405.html+shawn+parker%2C++%3A[[[%2C%0A&sc=0&eq=yes"

"http://www.wecowi.org/view/Spezial:Ask?title=Spezial%3AAsk&q=&po=%3FComment6%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfunction-118.html+nonfunction%2C+rkydg%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-greenwich-rhode-island-public-schools-594.html+east+greenwich+rhode+island+public+schools%2C%3D(((%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfuturity-157.html+nonfuturity%2C++%3E%3A-%5D%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfungible-147.html+nonfungible%2C++%3E%3AP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-greenbush-movie-theater-709.html+east+greenbush+movie+theater%2C++5672%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnoni-jucie-benefits-712.html+noni+jucie+benefits%2C++pjwyf%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfragile-61.html+nonfragile%2C++43402%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonglandular-323.html+nonglandular%2C++%3E%3APPP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-hall-high-school-gainesville-160.html+east+hall+high+school+gainesville%2C++2584%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fisonzo-offensive-226.html+isonzo+offensive%2C++%3E%3APPP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfunctioning-teenney-135.html+nonfunctioning+teenney%2C++8-))%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonhypostatically-658.html+nonhypostatically%2C++kehi%2C%0A&sc=0&eq=yes"

This are only to examples
The thing is that I've observed that my system was very slow in the last time, so I thought that such queries mybe create much traffic on the database.

  1. I wanted to see if somebody else maybe had oberserved this, or if this is a specific problem of my Wiki
  2. The thing is that this is a special phenomenon of Spezial:Ask pages, so there must be something spezial about it that this bots access this page.

My main intention was to show that I've monitored something like this. Thats is not a heavy problem, but something that I think should be known

This is not a problem and should not create notable load. Of course, if you are attacked by thousand of spammers, any request would make the site slow. I aggree that your server appears to be very slow. Things you can try are:

I close this as a non-bug.

P.S.: The reason for Special:Ask being targetted is probably simply that there are links to this special page in the wiki, whenever there is a "further results" link. Bots may pick those up and try their tricks on them.

P.P.S.: For running jobs, use the MW command line script runJobs.php.