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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Frances Hocutt <frances.hocutt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Baron
<jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com>
wrote:
On Jul 10, 2014 3:30 PM, "Bináris"
<wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't see anything like a compulsory
username in this policy. I think
Pywikibot has a UA that complies, it does not have to be unique and
personal.
I rememberd something like statistical purpose but may have mismatched
something.
But I have no problem with going to wikitech-l if you understand the
policy in a different way.
No, the whole point is to be unique, not statistics. I haven't read the
policy recently but if the policy is unclear then we can change the
policy.
It is about being able to contact the bot-runner if the bot is
misbehaving or runs into a problem. From
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy :
"If you run a bot, please send a User-Agent header identifying the bot
and supplying some way of contacting you, e.g.:
User-Agent: MyCoolTool/1.1 (
http://example.com/MyCoolTool/;
MyCoolTool(a)example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4"
-Frances
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