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