Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia App User Agents

Hello! We are getting closer to a general release of the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps, and I think we should standardize on a User-Agent format. The old app just appended an identifier in front of the phone's default UA[1] but I think we can do better, to avoid privacy concerns[2]. How about: WikipediaApp/<version> <OS>/<form-factor>/<version> This gives us all the info we need (App version, OS, Form Factor (Tablet / Phone) and OS version) without giving away too much. It is also fairly simple to construct and parse. For the latest alpha, my Nexus 4 would generate WikipediaApp/32 Android/Phone/4.4 While an iOS device might generate WkipediaApp/2.0 iOS/Phone/7.1 form-factor would just be Phone|Tablet for now, and can be expanded later if necessary. Thoughts? [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/User_agents#Apps [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging/UserAgentSanitization -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog