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Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser

Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser

Posted Apr 5, 2012 23:08 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser by scientes
Parent article: Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy

"Scripts should use an informative User-Agent string with contact information, or they may be IP-blocked without notice."

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Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser

Posted Apr 9, 2012 9:28 UTC (Mon) by Nikerabbit (subscriber, #59780) [Link]

You are barking at the wrong tree :) The linked page clearly states it is a policy about Wikimedia sites, not about the MediaWiki software. And yes, the names are confusingly similar.

Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser

Posted Apr 11, 2012 21:32 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Unfortunately they seem to have hard-coded that policy in mediawiki, so sites like http://libreplanet.org/ have the same issue.

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