>What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible automata? Right.The motivation was to see if the absence of cookies works as a cheap proxy to identify robots. It is a pretty easy change to make that might help us quite a bit, we shall update the list when we have some data.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible > automata? > > On 21 October 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Team: > > > > As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on > > the X-analytics header. > > > > If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies > whatsoever it > > will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could > > correspond to a fresh browser session, a user browsing with cookies > disabled > > or, most likely, a bot request as most bots will not accept cookies. We > > *might* be able to use this setting as a cheap proxy to quantify bot > > traffic. > > > > > > Documentation about this change can be found here: > > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nuria > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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