On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2014 3:30 PM, "Bináris" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't see anything like a compulsory username in this policy. I think >> Pywikibot has a UA that complies, it does not have to be unique and >> personal. >> I rememberd something like statistical purpose but may have mismatched >> something. >> >> But I have no problem with going to wikitech-l if you understand the >> policy in a different way. > > No, the whole point is to be unique, not statistics. I haven't read the > policy recently but if the policy is unclear then we can change the policy.
It is about being able to contact the bot-runner if the bot is misbehaving or runs into a problem. From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy : "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" -Frances _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
