wiki down?

P Padil

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Feb 24, 2026, 1:50:46 PM (10 days ago) Feb 24

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For the last 15 min I get an error when I tried to access the wiki (NuVoc, Essays):

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
(Cannot access the database)

Followed by a stream of:
#0 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(934): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()

Jan-Pieter Jacobs

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Feb 24, 2026, 2:10:23 PM (10 days ago) Feb 24

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Strange... it works for me at least now.

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P Padil

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Feb 24, 2026, 2:20:41 PM (10 days ago) Feb 24

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Yep, works now.

chris burke

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Feb 24, 2026, 9:22:18 PM (9 days ago) Feb 24

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All - the wiki server is getting very high volume requests right now
(nearly all automated). Expect some downtime while I try to work
around this.

Chris

chris burke

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Feb 24, 2026, 9:52:56 PM (9 days ago) Feb 24

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This problem with high-volume bot access comes up from time to time,
and I am thinking of letting Cloudflare free tier handle it. This is
also a convenient time to set this up, as I also plan to update to the
latest mediawiki LTS and do some cleanup of the wiki content.

I have never used Cloudflare, but mediawiki themselves document it,
and I think it is recommended. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cloudflare. Any comments on
this?

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