MediaWiki-specific crawler spam

I’ve been seeing these in my server logs since at least last year, almost entirely from Face(plant)book: "GET /w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideminor=1&userExpLevel=registered&days=30&limit=100&from=20260419090335 HTTP/2.0" 404 548 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler))" And from something calling itself MJ12bot: "GET /w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&from=20260205045441&fromFormatted=04:54,%205%20February%202026&userExpLevel=registered&hidemyself=1 HTTP/1.1" 404 146 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; http://mj12bot.com/)" These crawlers have been trying to scrape pages on one of our family wikis. That isn’t unusual; it’s how search engines work. But they’re… bad at their jobs. People who run MediaWiki software expose a bunch of endpoints for tracking changes, among other…