On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org wrote:
It will take time for frameworks to implement an amended User-Agent policy. For example, pywikipedia (pywikibot compat) is not actively maintained.
That doesn't imply we shouldn't have a policy that anyone can refer to, these bots will not follow it until they get some maintainers.
There was a task filled against Analytics for this, but Dan Andreescu removed Analytics (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99373#1859170).
Sorry that the tagging is confusing. I think Analytics tag was removed cause this is a request for data and our team doesn't do data retrieval. We normally tag with "analytics" phabricator items that have actionables for our team. I am cc-ing Bryan who has already done some analysis on bots requests to the API and can probably provide some data.
It would be possible to make some relative comparisons of pywikibot versions using the data that is currently collected in the wmf.webrequest data set. "Someday" I'll get T108618 [0] finished which will make answering some of the more granular questions in T99373 easier. Kunal talked with Brad and I a few weeks ago when we were all in SF for the DevSummit about other instrumentation that could be put in place specifically for pywikibot so that something like Special:ApiFeatureUsage [2] could be created for pywikibot version tracking as well. This all seems like a fork of the topic at hand however.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108618 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99373 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage
Bryan