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Id: 94885
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: MediaWiki-Bot

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: okeyes [...] wikimedia.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: (no value)
Fixed in: 5.006000



Subject: Please follow the API etiquette principles around user agents
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:08:59 -0700
To: bug-MediaWiki-Bot [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Oliver Keyes <okeyes [...] wikimedia.org>
As the person who has to handle the Wikimedia traffic analysis at the moment: please include at /least/ a URL to the repository of your choice (github, CPAN, I don't mind) in the standard user agent. There are actually a lot of "Mediawiki bot"s ;). -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat Apr 19 22:09:09 2014, okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote: Show quoted text
> As the person who has to handle the Wikimedia traffic analysis at the > moment: please include at /least/ a URL to the repository of your choice > (github, CPAN, I don't mind) in the standard user agent. There are actually > a lot of "Mediawiki bot"s ;). >
I believe this should be fixed in the v5.6.0 release.
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #94885] Please follow the API etiquette principles around user agents
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 00:12:27 -0400
To: bug-MediaWiki-Bot [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Oliver Keyes <okeyes [...] wikimedia.org>
Cool; thanks! On 3 September 2014 00:01, Mike.lifeguard via RT < bug-MediaWiki-Bot@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94885 > > > On Sat Apr 19 22:09:09 2014, okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
> > As the person who has to handle the Wikimedia traffic analysis at the > > moment: please include at /least/ a URL to the repository of your choice > > (github, CPAN, I don't mind) in the standard user agent. There are
> actually
> > a lot of "Mediawiki bot"s ;). > >
> > > I believe this should be fixed in the v5.6.0 release. >
-- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation