Hi everyone, If you are using Wikidata's APIs please see the information below. The WMF will start enforcing the user agent policy more strictly going forward. So if you have a tool or application that doesn't set a proper user agent please take a minute to fix that.
Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Giuseppe Lavagetto <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Enforcement of the Wikimedia User-Agent policy To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Hi, As part of our work to ensure a fair use of our infrastructure[1], we are going to progressively enforce our long-standing user-agent policy[2] more systematically than we used to. This will mean that, unless you set a user-agent that complies with the policy, your requests will be rate-limited and eventually blocked over the coming month. As usual, this excludes requests coming directly from toolforge/wikimedia cloud services. For details on the schedule and further discussion please refer to the phabricator task[3] Cheers, Giuseppe [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2025-2026/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs/en#Responsible_Use_of_Infrastructure_(WE5) [2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400119 -- Giuseppe Lavagetto Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Lydia Pintscher - https://lydiapintscher.de - WD:Q18016466 Portfolio Lead for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 30 5771162-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorständin: Franziska Heine. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list -- [email protected] Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ZPJ3UTKYLEQR3UYMSSPFTQKTE3SOTCEM/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
