Team:
As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on
the X-analytics header.
If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies whatsoever
it will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could
correspond to a fresh browser session, a user b
What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible automata?
On 21 October 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz wrote:
> Team:
>
> As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on
> the X-analytics header.
>
> If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no co
>What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible
automata?
Right.The motivation was to see if the absence of cookies works as a cheap
proxy to identify robots. It is a pretty easy change to make that might
help us quite a bit, we shall update the list when we have some data.
On
Awesome; cool!
On 21 October 2015 at 15:49, Nuria Ruiz wrote:
>>What was the motivation for this change? Just looking for possible
>> automata?
> Right.The motivation was to see if the absence of cookies works as a cheap
> proxy to identify robots. It is a pretty easy change to make that might he
I was under the impression that most of the MediaWiki bot frameworks do
accept cookies, but I imagine many of the home-made bots don't. Seems like
using an unknown useragent string might be a better proxy.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Nuria Ruiz wrote:
> >What was the motivation for this cha
>Seems like using an unknown useragent string might be a better proxy.
We already do bot filtering using user agent strings. Please see:
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/blob/master/refinery-core/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/analytics/refinery/core/Webrequest.java#L56
On Wed,
Quim has proposed an alternative wording for the text about
republication of private communication.
You can comment at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#New_proposal.2C_welcomes_feedback
or to conduct-discuss...@wikimedia.org .
Thanks as always,
Matt Flaschen
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We are now working on the "Report a problem" section of the draft Code
of conduct:
* Section:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Report_a_problem
* Talk:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finishing_the_.22Report_a_problem.22_section
* Alternatively
