Just notifying you that we are working on customized user-agent: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/User-agent
Is it good? specially the default Best On 7/31/14, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
