alt Hacker NewsThis has basically been Wikipedia's bot policy for a long long time. If you run a bot you should identify it via the UserAgent.
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Found...
This has basically been Wikipedia's bot policy for a long long time. If you run a bot you should identify it via the UserAgent.
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Found...
It's only recently, within the last three months IIRC, that Wikipedia started requiring a UA header
I know because as a matter of practice I do not send one. Like I do with most www sites, I used Wikipedia for many years without ever sending a UA header. Never had a problem
I read the www text-only, no graphical browser, no Javascript