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h_anna_h
on Feb 9, 2021
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20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one ...
The policy is for how wikipedia will act when encountering clients with certain user-agent headers, not a rule for the clients.
zaarn
on Feb 9, 2021
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It's a policy how wikimedia acts when clients lack a user agent header, it's therefore effectively a rule for clients as without a proper UA header, they may be blocked indefinitely.
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