Bot scraping was accounting for 88% of all site traffic. This became a signifcant performance hit on the server; impacting site response rate.
62% of all site traffic was coming from “GPTBot/1.4” OpenAI to scrape site content for AI training data. This appears to be because the OpenAI GPTBot got stuck in an infinite loop querying dynamic URLs in the MediaWiki section of the site.
Bot scraping mitigations have been implemented.