[17:37:56] Hi, does anyone know if Wikimedia has decided to impose restrictions on websites that rely on them? [17:38:20] for example images from Commons [17:42:07] On a Wikipedia mirror site (with a lot of traffic and users), most of the images stopped loading today... [17:42:46] with which error? [17:42:56] depends on how fast they crawl, I guess. [17:44:00] also depends if they are considered compliant mirrors or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks [17:44:45] and if they do the remote loading part [17:45:22] like deep links into commons without copying the actual image [17:45:25] There was no significant change today in terms of our usage volume [17:45:32] even less than average [17:45:47] it seems like the change was on Wikimedia's side [17:48:05] Guest73: what's the exact error you get? [17:53:17] On the client side, instead of images, an error message appears Error creating thumbnail. [17:53:20] Additionally, scripts trying to access through the built-in Nginx reverse proxy are returning a "Too many requests" error. [17:55:20] Guest73: sounds like you found the reason then [17:56:36] Guest73, is that a "live mirror" per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors ? [17:57:34] Guest73: if you want to share the name of the site I can check if there is a specific rule for that [17:58:00] but in general.. yea.. please dont deep-link to commons if that is the case here [17:58:15] and/or do things slower [18:09:59] We're not doing anything unusual. [18:10:03] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos [18:10:07] That's what we're using. [18:42:40] andre: ? [18:59:00] Guest73: if you think it's not a live mirror per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors please open a ticket in our bug tracker Phabricator. you can use an existing wiki user to login. [18:59:32] direct form https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/ just worry about title and description, you can ignore the rest at first [18:59:57] so it's basically just like an email with subject and body [19:03:00] I opened the logs on the server - there are many: [19:03:20] 2025-07-14 18:42:11 7472aa1c25e0 ****_main-mw_: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 429 Too many requests (1059162) [19:22:12] mutante: I went over the instructions - we are definitely not a live mirror. [19:42:32] good, thank you [20:02:49] andre: Does this error mean anything to you? I'm a little stressed because the site's readers are complaining... [20:09:18] Guest73: what it says. "429 Too many requests" [20:09:43] how exactly do you pull from Commons? [20:10:08] $wgForeignFileRepos [20:33:43] andre: it helps, the code 7472aa1c25e0 appears in each of the logs. [20:33:55] *if it [20:34:34] 2025-07-14 20:32:58 7472aa1c25e0 ****_main-mw_: GET https://he.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=File%3AFlag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg&iiprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Curl%7Csize%7Csha1%7Cmetadata%7Cmime%7Cmediatype%7Cextmetadata&prop=imageinfo&iimetadataversion=2&iiextmetadatamultilang=1&format=json&action=query&redirects=true&uselang=he [20:34:34] HTTP/1.1 - 429 NULL [20:34:35] 2025-07-14 20:32:58 7472aa1c25e0 ****_main-mw_: GET https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?titles=File%3AFlag_of_Israel.svg&iiprop=url%7Ctimestamp&iiurlwidth=46&iiurlheight=-1&iiurlparam=langhe-46px&prop=imageinfo&uselang=he&format=json&action=query&redirects=true HTTP/1.1 - 429 NULL