Jonathan, in theory, if you never use query continuation, you don't need to do anything with your code - you just need to tell the community that the bot is ok to use the new continuation system. This way noone will block the bot just in case. It is much better than to use "rawcontinue", because that flag will keep telling us someone needs the old system.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
I run GrantsBot, which is listed here.
I've updated all GrantsBot API requests to use rawcontinue=1. But as I read through this thread, it's not clear to me that that's the problem. I can't find a single instance in my code where I'm actually continuing a query. Does this breaking change only apply be an issue if you were using querycontinue in the first place?
I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere or I'm missing something obvious, but I'd be grateful for specific confirmation :)
Best, Jonathan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjorsch@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjorsch@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:29 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com
wrote:
If possible, could you compile a list of bots affected at a lower threshold - maybe 1,000. That will give us a better idea of the scale of bots operators that will be affected when this lands - currently in one months time.
I already have the list of *accounts* affected: there are 510 with
between
1000 and 10000 hits. Of those, 454 do not contain "bot" (case insensitively), so they might be human users with user scripts, or AWB
if
that's not fixed (someone please check!), or the like. For comparison,
in
the over-10000 group there were 30 such that I filtered out.
I'll want to check with Legal to make sure the additional release of account names is still compliant with the privacy policy (I'm almost
but
not entirely sure it would be ok).
Legal recommended we only post the list of bots, not the human accounts. These are:
AHbot AsuraBot Autobot BattyBot Bibcode_Bot Bottuzzu ChenzwBot Cydebot DickensBot DrTrigonBot DSisyphBot DumbBOT DYKHousekeepingBot DYKUpdateBot FBot GiftBot GrantsBot HangsnaBot HangsnaBot2 ImageRemovalBot InceptionBot JackBot JBot Jimmy-bot Kenrick95Bot KrBot KrinkleBot LivingBot MalafayaBot MaraBot MauroBot MBHbot Mr.Z-bot NowCommons-Sichtbot Olafbot PereBot PseudoBot QianBot Rainbot Reports_bot RFF-Bot Salebot Sanjeev_bot SemperBlottoBot SergoBot SHBot Steenthbot TurkászBot UWCTransferBot VlsergeyBot VriuBot YiFeiBot Yobot ZacheBot Zlobot
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