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Allow Wikimedia Maps usage on mwoffliner
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Per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/External_usage, please allow Wikimedia Maps to be used on mwoffliner.

Link to site: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
Purpose/details about your project: mwoffliner scrapes MediaWiki installations, including Wikimedia sites, to create offline ZIMs that can be read by Kiwix or any ZIM reader.
Wikimedia Affiliate supporting project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis

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akosiaris added subscribers: MSantos, SLopes-WMF, akosiaris.

Moving from SRE to serviceops-radar and subscribing the people that can approve this (same as in T339102). On the SRE side, it's not difficult to implement this.

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Please don't fake the referer to localhost, the most probable thing that will end up happening is that we will identify (falsely but justifiably during a high stress incident) kiwix as an abuser and use way heavier hammers than the soft limitation we have there.

For context, the intent of the limitation is to stop utilization of the maps tiles by unrelated to the Wikimedia Movement projects (cause we don't have unlimited resources to dedicate to maps). Kiwix is related to the Wikimedia Movement of course, so, IMHO it does warrant being allowed. Thanks for following the due process.

Technically speaking, the advice I see in https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/2067 will be sufficient.

Audiodude claimed this task.

Thanks for the attention and explanation. We have implemented using the base URL of the wiki being scraped as the Referer header, and https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/2067 been closed.

Pppery renamed this task from Allow Wikimedia Maps usage on <domain> to Allow Wikimedia Maps usage on mwoffliner.Jul 24 2024, 12:49 AM