Is there any contact info to have one’s name de-listed? My content is openly licensed but my name is not and I don’t want my name listed as a contributor in the footer of WMF.

Also just a suggestion for anybody else as creeped out by this as I am -

Blocking WMF from access to your RSS feed in order to scrape your posts

I use Wordpress with apache. So in the /blog directory for my wordpress install I have a .htaccess file. I set up a mod_rewrite rule that redirects anyone trying to access my RSS feed from the IP address of We Make Feed to a page that points to this WMF statement.

Here is .htaccess config I use in case it helps someone:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} 82\.221\.136\.1
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /feed
    RewriteRule .* /harasser [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

The REQUEST_URI line points to where your Fedora .planet file points to for your blog’s RSS. You can replace the “/harasser” to go wherever you want the redirect to go on your site.

Redirecting any referrals from WMF to the Fedora statement on WMF

If anyone clicks on any link to my blog (front page, post, etc.) they will get automatically redirected to the Fedora community blog statement on WMF.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ⁽.*)\.wemakefedora\.(.*) [NC]
    RewriteRule ⁽.*)$ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/statement-on-we-make-fedora/ [L,R]
</IfModule>

Other Methods
I found this page to have useful information that others may find helpful, including how to just block outright without a redirect:

I’ll forward this to legal. Thanks.

Ugh, as someone whose blog is on GitLab Pages, I wonder what’s the best way to block them. There’s no equivalent of htaccess, and I take it they won’t be nice enough to honor a robots.txt telling them kindly to please go away?

Also, blocking the aggregation is the nicest solution.

Feed aggregators like this are not made to support a adversarial blog, as the assumption is that you only aggregate folks you trust.

But there is dozen of way to sabotage a website like this if you are syndicated.

For example, redirecting/proxying just your feed URL to the wemakefedora feed URL would surely have a interesting results on the website feed.

Redirecting it to a big file is going to also be annoying for the operator. It would be a shame if the redirection was pointing on a 21 G compressed XML file that would be uncompressed in ram to see if it is a proper atom feed, and the build process start to go OoM every time (not to mention clogging the network pipe and exploding the bandwidth cost if paid by usage like on AWS).

But feed content can also be a vector. A specific feed full of empty posts using zero width space all made in the last 5 minutes would monopolize the aggregator (who show the last X posts). A feed full of incorrect HTML will break the layout. Correct but expensive HTML would make the website unusable. Have you ever seen how a browser react with 200 nested tables and images without having the size of each file ?

And for real nasty stuff, I am sure a feed full of link that will attract copyright lawyers can result in a quick and swift action from the hosting company if the person responsible do not react.

Really, aggregating people against their will is asking for trouble.

If it is truly without permission, meaning the original content was published without a license or with a license that does not permit republication/distribution, then if the aggregator site is in the US a DMCA request could be used to shut it down.