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Best On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Frances Hocutt <frances.hoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> > wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2014 3:30 PM, "Bináris" <wikipo...@gmail.com> 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/; > mycoolt...@example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4" > > -Frances > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- Amir
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