Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app. It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself: tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/ http://tagorama.rocks/; info@tagorama.rocks mailto:info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich
You would have to contact Wikimedia's Site Reliability Engineering team with a request like this. Your best way forward is probably to file a task in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ and tag it with #Operations.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM Frank Wunderlich info@tagorama.rocks wrote:
Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app. It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself:
tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/; info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
Thanks for the hint! Best regards, Frank
Am 28.01.2020 um 18:50 schrieb Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org:
You would have to contact Wikimedia's Site Reliability Engineering team with a request like this. Your best way forward is probably to file a task in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> and tag it with #Operations.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM Frank Wunderlich info@tagorama.rocks wrote: Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app. It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself:
tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/ http://tagorama.rocks/; info@tagorama.rocks mailto:info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
Or you can contact the Google Play team to ask for blocking your app. They can trigger the app blocking mechanism remotely in Android devices to automatically uninstall the app....
Regards, Ted Chien https://about.me/htchien
Frank Wunderlich info@tagorama.rocks 於 2020年1月29日 週三 上午4:06 寫道：
Thanks for the hint! Best regards, Frank
Am 28.01.2020 um 18:50 schrieb Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org
:
You would have to contact Wikimedia's Site Reliability Engineering team with a request like this. Your best way forward is probably to file a task in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ and tag it with #Operations.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM Frank Wunderlich info@tagorama.rocks wrote:
Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app. It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself:
tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/; info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
Uhm. What were the legal considerations?
Anyway, for the future, I can suggest to protect your app under whatever Free Software license (because every Free Software license includes a strong discharge of liability, see the GNU General Public License for example) and then just release your app using F-Droid:
I hope you will solve your legal problems, if they come from the Play Store EULA.
Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the
Wikipedia
ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the
app.
It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are
still
installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by
deactivating
all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself:
tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/;
info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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