On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I think that's obvious. In all seriousness though, we may want to > consider the possibility of letting users know about features they are > missing out on.
If someone has a good idea of how to do this without being annoying, that would be reasonable. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Friesen <li...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: > I read a note before that someone caught Microsoft's Bing making a > number of requests to their site with a UA that makes it look like ie6 > and inflates stats. > http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/dear-microsoft > > Are the stats setup to differentiate between real ie6 users and bing > autosurfing? I'd be pretty surprised if Bing is generating enough traffic to noticeably affect the percentage, even if it does get counted as IE6. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Stephen Bain <stephen.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Someone from Microsoft told this guy that they spoof the UA because > some sites won't give content to UAs they don't recognise, including > the msnbot: > > http://eng.genius.com/blog/2010/01/12/user-agent-strings/ Funny how every other search engine manages to use a real UA string . . . _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l