Marcel Ruiz Forns, 28/01/2016 01:15:
we (Analytics team) never finished establishing and advertising it. In this email we explain what the convention is today and what purpose it serves.
So this email is not meant to advertise the convention, right? Because the audience of this mailing list certainly doesn't include crawler operators.
[...] (*) There is already another convention[2] for bots that EDIT Wikimedia content.
[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/blob/master/refinery-... [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots
I support this page was linked because from there one can click [[API:Client code]] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette#User-Agent_header > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy which is the mentioned conventioned.
Nemo