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.
2014-07-10 21:19 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
It's because of user-agent policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
I think we can discuss this in a more public place like wikitech-l
Do you agree?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
I think e-mail address is something personal and sensitive and is out of the reach of CUs and nowhere in Wikipedia is compulsory. Additionally, Pywikibot may be used in various MW installations of which we don't know anything in advance. Thus not a very good idea.
What was the goal of including the username? Is it worth? The price should not be bigger then the advantage.
2014-07-10 20:47 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
Hello all, 1- Don't forget about the bug triage. The blog post just published https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/10/pywikibot-will-have-its-next-bug-triage-on-july-24%e2%88%9227/ so you can read and use it to advertise.
2- As our talk in here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Client_code/Evaluations/Pywikibot I want to make a patch to add username in user-agent in header of API calls. but only ISO 8859 is being supported and usernames can be anything (utf-8). For usernames that might not compatible, people need to put e-mail address in user-config.py. Is it okay for you? Any comments?
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