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Von: Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
An: Pywikibot discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum: 11.07.2014 01:09
Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Two issues
Just sent an e-mail to wikitech-l
Best
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
>
imho the first contact for the bot are the developers and pywikibot is well known as
contact address. The second contact is the bot account itself. I is common to have bot
account and the operator should be reachable via wikimail or contact information on the
bot's user page. The bot account is unique. I guess it would be enough to have
"pywikibot", script name and bot account in the UA.
Xqt