Thanks, Brad. That is helpful.

-Frances

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjorsch@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Frances Hocutt <frances.hocutt@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have. What I took from that thread was "the more information you
>> provide, the more likely it is that ops will be able to contact you if
>> your bot is causing problems" and "there should definitely be some way
>> to contact the person running the bot, whether via talk page for a
>> logged-in bot or via email or similar." Is that accurate?
>
>
> Yes, that is accurate.
>
>>
>> If so, there's still ambiguity in the "more information is probably
>> better" and it would still be useful to know how much is enough.
>
>
> I'd say at the least you'd want:
> * An identifier that isn't going to be confused with many other bots.
> ** No spoofing browser agents!
> ** No generic agents such as "curl", "lwp", "Python-urllib", and so on.
> ** For large frameworks like pywikibot, there are so many users that just
> "pywikibot" is likely to be somewhat vague. Including detail about the
> specific task/script/etc would be a good idea, even if that detail is opaque
> to anyone besides the operator.
> * Some way to identify how to contact the operator, without relying on other
> headers in the request (e.g. the login cookies). This could be a reference
> to a userpage on the local wiki, a userpage on a related wiki using
> interwiki linking syntax, a URI for a relevant external website, an email
> address, etc.
>
>
> --
> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
>

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