Blocking Bots in Mediawiki (but not Google)

$250-750 USD

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almost 11 years ago

$250-750 USD

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I have a large Mediawiki site (the open source software behind Wikipedia) that's getting killed by data mining bots. The bots are eating up all my server resources. Mediawiki has lots of extensions that kill spam bots, but none that I can find that kill data mining bots. I need the following: 1. I need a script that blocks data mining bots by creating a bot trap. All bots that go to the trap need to be blacklisted from the site (unless their on the whitelist) 2. The script to have a whitelist that allows the major search engine bots (google, yahoo, bing,etc). 3. The script to be written as an extension to the Mediawiki software so I can still update the software Mediawiki (in other words not a hack that changes the fundamental code and locks up the ability for easy updates). Basically I'm looking for something similar to:[login to view URL] But once a bot goes to a trap it's blocked from the entire website forever.

PHP

Software Architecture

Project ID: 4654142

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@farhaoui

Hi, we are a team of programmers and designers with expertise and experience in PHP, Mysql, jQuery and Ajax. We have coded and designed websites for various types of businesses very successfully. We have developed many complex and extensive custom websites of varied extents and complexity. Please see PMB for some of our recent projects. We recommend long term reliable and valuable solutions to all our clients meeting their exact requirements. I wish to request you to open a PMB to discuss in detail about the precise requirements. This will help me to assess scope of work and I will revise or confirm my bid. It will also help me to make an informed commitment. I wish to assure you that I commit only if I am confident of delivering and once committed I ensure a very thorough job. I also ensure support if you need enhancements in future. I look forward to hearing from you and working on the project. Thank you.

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@chsztsl

Please check the PMB.

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@prosysadmin

I am a Sr. Linux System Administrator for a very large hosting company and actually work monitoring servers. I deal with these bothersome bots on a daily basis (manually blocking them unfortunately), and it would be my pleasure to develop an extension for you. I have 7 years experience developing with PHP, and have created plugins for several popular cms platforms including Mediawiki. I can definitely handle this for you, but due to my work schedule I would need 3 to 5 days to ensure I deliver a tested and debugged product that performs exactly as expected. Please let me know if you are interested by awarding the project, and sending a message my way. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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