Have you seen the recent thread at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077517.html?
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Frances Hocutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > When I wrote the new API client library standard, one of the intended > effects was that libraries would make it easy for bot-runners to > comply with the user-agent policy found at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-agent_policy . However, different > people understand the policy to mean different things. > > As I read it, the relevant parts of the policy are: > > "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/; > [email protected]) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4`" > > There's been some discussion in the context of my client library > evaluation project here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Client_code/Evaluations/Java_Wiki_Bot_Framework_%28JWBF%29 > and here: https://github.com/jpatokal/mediawiki-gateway/issues/65 . As > I understood it, the example provided demonstrated the requirements, > but it's now clear to me that there's room for ambiguity in the > interpretation of the user-agent policy. > > My question is: what information is essential to "identify" a bot? The > example given appears to contain the bot name and version, a link to a > page with more information and/or the repository for the bot's code, > and the framework that was used to write the bot (SuperLib/1.4, I > assume). Does WMF operations want all of these components? What is the > minimum necessary to comply with the policy, and what is bonus > information? > > -Frances > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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