Hi,

As part of our work to ensure a fair use of our infrastructure[1], we are going to progressively enforce our long-standing user-agent policy[2] more systematically than we used to.

This will mean that, unless you set a user-agent that complies with the policy, your requests will be rate-limited and eventually blocked over the coming month. As usual, this excludes requests coming directly from toolforge/wikimedia cloud services.

For details on the schedule and further discussion please refer to the phabricator task[3]

Cheers,

Giuseppe

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2025-2026/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs/en#Responsible_Use_of_Infrastructure_(WE5)

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy