On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2014 3:30 PM, "Bináris" <wikiposta@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@example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4"

-Frances

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