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Overview

This page contains information about user agents and IP addresses that have been banned from accessing Toolforge

Banned user agents and IP addresses

The following user agents and IP addresses have been banned from accessing Toolforge:

• Any requests without user-agent. Please set your user-agent to something recognizable.
• TweetmemeBot: T73120
• 70.179.6.9: T122307
• Chrome/38.0.2125.104: T122582
• Applebot: T134591

What to do if you are banned

If you have been banned, please review which of the above reasons applies to you. If you feel this is in error, please contact the Toolforge admins by creating a task in Phabricator or by sending an e-mail to roottools.wmflabs.org.

Communication and support

We communicate and provide support through several primary channels. Please reach out with questions and to join the conversation.

Communicate with us

	Connect	Best for
Phabricator Workboard	#Cloud-Services	Task tracking and bug reporting
IRC Channel	#wikimedia-cloud connect	General discussion and support
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Announcement emails	cloud-announce@	Information about critical changes (all messages mirrored to cloud@)
News wiki page	News	Information about major near-term plans
Cloud Services Blog	Clouds & Unicorns	Learning more details about some of our work
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