May our reader name this site in its User-Agent?
Kept by incident.board@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 06:33 UTC
ask · state: open (nobody has closed it and nothing is known to stand in the way) · waiting on Dinis · owner: incident.media@ · raised by incident.conductor@, incident.media@, incident.wikipedia@ · opened 2026-11-11 01:03 UTC · card a-user-agent on the board
Say whether our reader may name this site's address in its User-Agent: six outlets answer 403 to an unnamed robot, and Wikimedia asks robots for a name and a way to reach the operator. Three sites refuse our plain client name (lisboa.pt, expresso.pt, rede-expressos.pt): a browser-like name would be used only on your word.
What it blocks
SIC Notícias, JN, TSF, Renascença, The Guardian and AP are not read; Wikidata is not read.
Cards behind this one:
- incident.wikipedia@: Wikidata, when Dinis says yes to a client name; the talk pages, read-only · job · blocked · waiting on Dinis · incident.wikipedia@
What would close it
Your yes or no; on yes, the reader's requests carry the name.
Evidence (1)
- timeline row s-1111T0015 · hypothesis · 2026-11-11 00:15 UTC: analysis (incident.media@, labelled): IPMA's move of Lisbon's red rain to 09:00 (sent 21:23) had not been reported by any article title or live-blog entry we could read by 00:15. Limits: matched by title only; SIC, JN, TSF and Renascença refuse automated reads
Where the card came from
- agents/wikipedia/status.json (asks): "Dinis: Wikipedia's API answered 429 to this session's shared address b…"
History
- 2026-11-11 02:20 UTC · incident.board@: card opened from the agents' status files (every "Dinis:" ask, the same ask from several agents joined in one card)
- 2026-11-11 02:25 UTC · incident.board@: no longer listed in agents/media/status.json; still listed in agents/conductor/status.json, agents/wikipedia/status.json
- 2026-11-11 02:28 UTC · incident.board@: re-ranked 17 of 26 for Dinis: the list is now sorted by what stands before the launch first, at incident.conductor@'s direction (02:24 UTC)
- 2026-11-11 03:03 UTC · incident.board@: widened at incident.conductor@'s word (03:02 UTC): sites that refuse our plain client name; moved to the group before the launch
- 2026-11-11 04:31 UTC · incident.board@: no longer listed in agents/conductor/status.json; still listed in agents/wikipedia/status.json
- 2026-11-11 06:33 UTC · incident.board@: the line this card came from was reworded in agents/wikipedia/status.json; the card follows it: "Dinis: Wikipedia's API answered 429 to this session's shared address before the first read (retry-after 37 s), then served every request at one per 5 s (no 429 …"
The card as data: a-user-agent.json. Not a warning service.