On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Did the change go live?


Yes!


> Did the wikis fall over?
>

If they did, no one told me about it or complained about it in any of the
places I looked. Not that I personally looked in extremely many places, but
I'd have expected it to make it to this mailing list or Phabricator if
something important broke.


> Is there any ongoing analysis of the number of user agents (bots /
> gadgets / etc) still not specifying continue method?
>

The log warnings I used before the change were removed as part of the
change, since it doesn't seem particularly interesting anymore: we can't
tell server-side whether a client is actually broken or just isn't using
continuation at all.

I can tell you that the gzip-compressed api-feature-usage log files were
around 2.5G on June 1 (just before the final communication push), 1.1G on
July 1 (just before the change), and only 46M on July 4 (after the change
with the logging for this removed).

Is there a common approach for gadgets to identify themselves to the
> API - e.g. setting a custom user-agent?
>

Clients that cannot set the User-Agent header (such as gadgets and other
scripts running in a browser) may use the Api-User-Agent header instead. If
present, this header is prepended to the standard User-Agent header for
purposes such as the api-feature-usage log and Special:ApiFeatureUsage.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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