I think I got IP banned from the wiki for using archwiki-tui

ptodorov0123 · 2026-10-19 05:24:07

I was doing an experiment, where I committed to only using the TTY for a while, no DM, no WM, nothing. Browsing the web was a pain and I found the archwiki-tui package. After an hour of fiddling around I no longer had access to wiki.archlinux.org. All I got was "Connection was reset". Turned off WiFi on my phone and it started loading there. The main https://archlinux.org/ site is working. It's been several days and I still don't have access.

Now I don't know if it was archwiki-tui or the chawan browser, but something really didn't like it. Looking at archwiki-tui sources they have:

const (
	defaultBaseURL = "https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php"
	userAgent      = "archwiki-tui/0.1 (+https://github.com/)"
)

I didn't search if they have rate limiting when making requests.

Can somebody help me, or point me to the correct place to get this resolved?

seth · 2026-10-19 07:17:52

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/wikicurses/

Is this via IPv6, IPv4 or both?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2312371

And then mail your relevant WAN IP along problem description to accountsupport@archlinux.org

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#1 2026-10-19 05:24:07

I think I got IP banned from the wiki for using archwiki-tui

#2 2026-10-19 07:17:52

Re: I think I got IP banned from the wiki for using archwiki-tui

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