mmm...There are several things here that are already taken care of by our user agent policy, for example: if you are using a bot or automated tool we already ask you to please include bot in the user agent plus contact info.
Please see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy Now, we do not keep this information long term, after 60 days it gets deleted. X-Analytics is used for bits of info of analytics value, and the contact info of a tool developer doesn't seem to be one of those. Can we backtrack a little bit? What is the goal of this project? To keep tally of who is queying wikidata query service? Anything else? Thanks, Nuria On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrak...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > For consistency between all possible clients, we seem to have only two > options: either part of the query, or the X-Analytics header. The > user-agent header is not really an option because it is not available for > all types of clients, and we want to have just one way for everyone. > Headers other than X-Analytics will need custom handling, whereas we > already have plenty of Varnish code to deal with X-Analytics header, split > it into parts, and for Hive to parse it. Yes it will be an extra line of > code in JS ($.ajax instead of $.get), but I am sure this is not such a big > deal if we provide cookie cutter code. Parsing query string in varnish/hive > is also some complex extra work, so lets keep X-Analytics. Proposed > required values (semicolon separated): > * tool=<name of the tool> > * toolver=<version of the tool> > * contact=<some way of contacting you, e.g. @twitter, em...@example.com, > +1.212.555.1234, ...> > > Bikeshedding ? See also: https://wikitech.wikimedia. > org/wiki/X-Analytics > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:45 AM Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> > Using custom HTTP headers would, of course, complicate calls for the >> > tool authors (i.e., myself). $.ajax instead of $.get and all that. I >> > would be less inclined to change to that. >> >> Yes, if you're using browser, you probably can't change user agent. In >> that case I guess we need either X-Analytics or put it in the query. Or >> maybe Referer header would be fine then - it is also recorded. If >> Referer is distinct enough it can be used then. >> >> -- >> Stas Malyshev >> smalys...@wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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