----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com An: Pywikibot discussion list pywikipedia-l@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@gmail.com wrote:
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
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