Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles
by dzent on Sunday May 12, 2013 @02:41AM
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this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?
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Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles
by mhashemi on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:27AM
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Backstory here: freegeoip.net has an hourly per-IP limit, so we distributed the load by doing the geolocation from client browsers. This borked freegeoip after many hours of Twitter/Ars Technica'ing.
It was a good thing Github got its storage servers back up; we're now running a local clone of freegeoip, as freegeoip.net smolders.
To freegeoip.net! May it rise again soon.
Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles
by mhashemi on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:30AM
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(N.B. for returning visitors: The sooner you force-refresh, the sooner freegeoip.net rises again.)
Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles
by innernette on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:00AM
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haha, yeah, we noticed freegeoip.net is effectively getting DDoS'd a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/mhashemi/status/333407761993957376
But it seemed to be holding at the time. Hopefully a local copy of the geodata will work better.