# Use Wikipedia Onebox for other MediaWiki sites

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-wikipedia-onebox-for-other-mediawiki-sites/40804>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [9. März 2016 um 12:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-wikipedia-onebox-for-other-mediawiki-sites/40804 "2016-03-09T12:15:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [10. März 2016 um 00:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-wikipedia-onebox-for-other-mediawiki-sites/40804/5 "2016-03-10T00:45:41Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’m not quite sure why this level of paranoia is necessary

It becomes very easy to DDoS your site by writing a post with a hundred oneboxes, etc. And most sites on the web don’t support opengraph or oembed, so it’d be a wasted HTTP request for every URL.

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