Yeah, I don't see anything at [[Manual:Bots]] that mentions a user-agent convention for bots that edit Wikipedia. As far as I know, there isn't any. Most editing bots either use a user-agent string set by the framework they are using or have a completely unique user-agent string. It seems like it would also be a good idea to create a convention for bots that edit.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> (*) There is already another convention[2] for bots that EDIT Wikimedia
> content.
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots

I don't see anything described in [[Manual:Bots]] that would actually
help you detect bot editing traffic. What am I missing? Bots (or any
high volume editing user) are typically asked to get specific rights
on the wikis that they are interacting with but those on wiki
permissions are associated with the wiki account and not the user
agent.

Bryan

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