Re: Dictionary database server issues

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

The documentation can be viewed on the copy on the Wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250329175049/https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/JMdict:_Next_Generation

We're still working on the issue of the bots pounding away at the wiki. Despite it being disabled, its (old) address is getting over 60k hits a day.

Jim

Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/      https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/

On Sat, 31 May 2025, 11:00 pm Jim Breen, <jimbreen@*********> wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 at 22:26, Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********> wrote:
> We are having quite an issue with the server at edrdg.org. It is being hit with masses of requests, probably from scrapers, and from time to time gets slow and even stops working.

As an interim measure, the documentation Wiki has been closed. It was
the target of many of the requests, which were overloading the web
server.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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http://www.jimbreen.org/      https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/

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