Thanks, Brad. That is helpful. -Frances
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:45 AM, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
