{"id":1071,"date":"2015-01-24T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:13:31","slug":"wikimedia-hitting-my-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2015\/01\/wikimedia-hitting-my-sites.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia hitting my sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have some plugins that are not only blocking spammers but collecting their IP address so I can create lists of spammers. I use this in my htaccess file.<\/p>\n

Recently the plugin reported that WikMedia was scanning my site, probably without a proper request header. It was banned. I don’t think that WikiMedia is a spammer, but why are they scanning my site? I would not expect them to have any reason for accessing my web pages.<\/p>\n

Keith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have some plugins that are not only blocking spammers but collecting their IP address so I can create lists of spammers. I use this in my htaccess file. Recently the plugin reported that WikMedia was scanning my site, probably without a proper request header. It was banned. I don’t think that WikiMedia is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}