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Is anyone else having issues with TekWiki today? I attempted to look up an instrument, but received a message stating that a login is required. I don’t have an account, so I can’t access anything past that.

It was down with 503 errors

Has been back since around 7 pm BST (GMT+1)

I have had a few minor problems lately, but it is usually back working in a few minutes or hours.
Jeff

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Jeffeelcr

Back to the Log In Required mode, evidently.

Jim Ford
Laguna Hills, California, USA

I don't recall who owns the domain and maintains the storage etc... To look
a bit closer into it. Can anyone please remind me?
I see a "Proxy Protection LLC" on whois, but that doesn't tell me anything.
I see it still down.
Radu.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 6:26?PM Jim Ford via groups.io <james.ford=
[email protected]> wrote:

Back to the Log In Required mode, evidently.

Jim Ford
Laguna Hills, California, USA

On Apr 23, 2025, at 2:27?PM, jeff_a_bowman@... via groups.io

<jeff_a_bowman@...> wrote:

?I have had a few minor problems lately, but it is usually back working

in a few minutes or hours.

Jeff

--
Jeffeelcr

I was able to get the copy of the manual I needed from the Wayback Machine.
I recommend others to use this as a temporary solution until this gets
sorted out.
Radu.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:24?PM Radu Bogdan Dicher via groups.io <vondicher=
[email protected]> wrote:

I don't recall who owns the domain and maintains the storage etc... To look
a bit closer into it. Can anyone please remind me?
I see a "Proxy Protection LLC" on whois, but that doesn't tell me anything.
I see it still down.
Radu.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 6:26?PM Jim Ford via groups.io <james.ford=
[email protected]> wrote:

Back to the Log In Required mode, evidently.

Jim Ford
Laguna Hills, California, USA

On Apr 23, 2025, at 2:27?PM, jeff_a_bowman@... via groups.io

<jeff_a_bowman@...> wrote:

?I have had a few minor problems lately, but it is usually back working

in a few minutes or hours.

Jeff

--
Jeffeelcr

Kurt Rosenfeld last I knew.
I have a login since I contributed before and am able to get in, however it is extremely slow.

Hi,

Tekwiki is being overloaded by bots that attempt to download the entire website. The result is bad service for human users of the site. I expect the performance of the website to remain bad until we implement a solution to that problem. We're working on it.

If you're curious and want to understand the general problem, you can do a web search for "ai scraper wikipedia".

Feel free to email me directly if you have questions regarding Tekwiki.

-Kurt

Thank you for creating, updating and maintaining this site. I use it all the time!

YES! Thank you!

ai bots are a real problem.

Frank DuVal

Yes, thank you as well from me. I reference it a LOT and I appreciate what has been done for it.

BOTs : Technology at its worst...

Thanks,
Barry - N4BUQ

Earlier today, I sent Kurt a PM asking if he was well and if so, does he have a back-up person or procedure in case he "won't be available", since so many of us depend on Tekwiki.
Also, I suggested we should arrange some kind of reimbursement for his costs. I remember this came up some years ago and ISTR that he didn't deem it necessary at the time.
I'd like to bring this up again at this moment.
Any ideas?

Raymond

I'd volunteer as a backup person. I've had admin privleges for awhile and
have contributed manual scans to the site. But I'm relatively old; it would
be useful to have at least two younger people on deck. The site is
infinitely valuable.

DaveD
KC0WJN


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:10 Raymond Domp Frank via groups.io <hewpatek=
[email protected]> wrote:

Earlier today, I sent Kurt a PM asking if he was well and if so, does he
have a back-up person or procedure in case he "won't be available", since
so many of us depend on Tekwiki.
Also, I suggested we should arrange some kind of reimbursement for his
costs. I remember this came up some years ago and ISTR that he didn't deem
it necessary at the time.
I'd like to bring this up again at this moment.
Any ideas?

Raymond

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 05:18 PM, Dave Daniel wrote:

I'd volunteer as a backup person. I've had admin privileges for awhile and
have contributed manual scans to the site. But I'm relatively old; it would
be useful to have at least two younger people on deck. The site is
infinitely valuable.

I'm also relatively old (my daughter says the same thing about herself), I use Tekwiki all the time and have contributed a number of documents.
We should try and find two people of age 50 at most.
I realize we're saying all this without Kurt having a word in as yet. Obviously, we need his consent before we try and do anything.

Raymond

I'd be willing to help if the admins don't mind. I'm on the mid to low end
of the age demographic I assume applies to us here.
Radu.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:18?AM Dave Daniel via groups.io <kc0wjn=
[email protected]> wrote:

I'd volunteer as a backup person. I've had admin privleges for awhile and
have contributed manual scans to the site. But I'm relatively old; it would
be useful to have at least two younger people on deck. The site is
infinitely valuable.

DaveD
KC0WJN


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:10 Raymond Domp Frank via groups.io <hewpatek=
[email protected]> wrote:

Earlier today, I sent Kurt a PM asking if he was well and if so, does he
have a back-up person or procedure in case he "won't be available", since
so many of us depend on Tekwiki.
Also, I suggested we should arrange some kind of reimbursement for his
costs. I remember this came up some years ago and ISTR that he didn't

deem

it necessary at the time.
I'd like to bring this up again at this moment.
Any ideas?

Raymond

Part of the problem, as I see it, that the younger one is, the less
valuable the site is. So there is an optimal age at which the backup admins
are younger than me but where the vintage Tektronix technology is still
valuable. Consider buying a 7104 for $200, including shipping. And Jim
Williams' principle of having gear that one can repair still holds.

I'm not sure where to go from here, or even if travel is necessary. Kurt
has done a good job so far and I haven't detected any deviation from that.

DaveD
KC0WJN


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:26 Raymond Domp Frank via groups.io <hewpatek=
[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 05:18 PM, Dave Daniel wrote:

I'd volunteer as a backup person. I've had admin privileges for awhile

and

have contributed manual scans to the site. But I'm relatively old; it

would

be useful to have at least two younger people on deck. The site is
infinitely valuable.

I'm also relatively old (my daughter says the same thing about herself), I
use Tekwiki all the time and have contributed a number of documents.
We should try and find two people of age 50 at most.
I realize we're saying all this without Kurt having a word in as yet.
Obviously, we need his consent before we try and do anything.

Raymond

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 at 15:40, n4buq via groups.io <n4buq=
[email protected]> wrote:

Yes, thank you as well from me. I reference it a LOT and I appreciate
what has been done for it.

BOTs : Technology at its worst...

I too appreciate the resource, and give my thanks.

While I agree wholeheartedly about AI mining bots, a small number of bots
are useful. One such is the internet archive, which can form an emergency
backup.

For example, to see the main page, goto and type "
w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Main_Page" into the search box. The result is
currently

and from that other pages can be accessed.

In addition, since this site makes good use of simple URLs, it can be
possible to infer the relevant page directly, e.g, just search directly for
"w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/1502"

If you spot a missing page, it is possible for anybody to submit individual
URLs for archiving at some point in the future. I would be hesitant to do
that at the moment on the presumption that it might currently have its work
cut out archiving US government datasets and web pages.