On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Frances Hocutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have. What I took from that thread was "the more information you > provide, the more likely it is that ops will be able to contact you if > your bot is causing problems" and "there should definitely be some way > to contact the person running the bot, whether via talk page for a > logged-in bot or via email or similar." Is that accurate? > Yes, that is accurate. > If so, there's still ambiguity in the "more information is probably > better" and it would still be useful to know how much is enough. > I'd say at the least you'd want: * An identifier that isn't going to be confused with many other bots. ** No spoofing browser agents! ** No generic agents such as "curl", "lwp", "Python-urllib", and so on. ** For large frameworks like pywikibot, there are so many users that just "pywikibot" is likely to be somewhat vague. Including detail about the specific task/script/etc would be a good idea, even if that detail is opaque to anyone besides the operator. * Some way to identify how to contact the operator, without relying on other headers in the request (e.g. the login cookies). This could be a reference to a userpage on the local wiki, a userpage on a related wiki using interwiki linking syntax, a URI for a relevant external website, an email address, etc. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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