Timwi wrote:
Well, your robots.txt seems to disallow access to /w/
for all
User-Agents. This would mean I would disrespect robots.txt if I were to
submit edits, right?
Then I would humbly like to ask to be allowed to run my little script on
your server.
Of course we know you and trust you, and can you tell a bit more about
what your script does? What is it written in? Can you share the
source?
The sole purpose of the script is to replace
occurrances of one text
with another. Most of the time, I use it for common spelling
corrections, or fixing links like [[Kurt Godel]] where someone
omitted the diacritic marks. So what User-Agent string should I
use? "Timwiscript"? (I don't like calling it a bot, it really
isn't... it still requires a great deal of manual interaction, and
doesn't wildly do stuff automatically.) Timwi
You could give it a User-Agent string that's exactly the same as any
popular browser, and we'd never know the difference. So it's good of
you to ask. :-) I't say Timwiscript is a good one, so that if anyone
does notice it doing anything strange, we can ask you about it.
--Jimbo