Since yesterday all github action tests of pywikibot-ci and windows fails due to 429 status code (TOO MANY REQUESTS). The http response text is like this::
Non-JSON response received from server wikipedia:en for url https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php The server may be down. Status code: 429 The text message is: Wikimedia Error Error Too many requests (f061ab2) If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.Request served via cp3066 cp3066, Varnish XID 373424790 Upstream caches: cp3066 intError: 429, Too many requests (f061ab2) at Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:01:41 GMTSensitive client informationIP address: 93.207.188.83 ERROR
Here some of the details
Here is a sample of the received headers:
{'content-length': '1965', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8', 'date': 'Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:10:06 GMT', 'nel': '{ "report_to": "wm_nel", "max_age": 604800, "failure_fraction": 0.05, ' '"success_fraction": 0.0}', 'report-to': '{ "group": "wm_nel", "max_age": 604800, "endpoints": [{ "url": ' '"https://intake-logging.wikimedia.org/v1/events?stream=w3c.reportingapi.network_error&schema_uri=/w3c/reportingapi/network_error/1.0.0" ' '}] }', 'retry-after': '1', 'server': 'Varnish', 'server-timing': 'cache;desc="int-front", host;desc="cp3066"', 'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=106384710; includeSubDomains; preload', 'x-analytics': '', 'x-cache': 'cp3066 int', 'x-cache-status': 'int-front', 'x-client-ip': '93.207.188.83', 'x-request-id': '902116cb-5506-4037-ab57-d98bb5246ad6'}