On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)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
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