Message: 7 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:47:47 +1100 From: John Vandenberg <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent: To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Probably everything looks easier from your armchair. I'd love to have that >> view! :) >> > > Then stop volunteering. Did you miss the point? The graphs provided in this thread clearly show that the solution had a positive & desired effect. A few negative side-effects have been put forward, such as preventing browsing without a UA, but Domas has also indicated that other tech team members can overturn the change if they don't like it. -- John Vandenberg Hi, Don't forget some normal traffic was blocked from this unannounced change, ie. Google's translate service? How much of the traffic reduction was from services like this? Some of the cited reduced traffic proving the strategies success is coming from valid services. Be careful or soon you will be saying: "you are either with wikimedia or with the terrorists"? :) cheers, Jamie _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
