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title: May our reader name this site in its User-Agent?
summary: 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 ref
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# 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@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.media%40web-summit.dinis) · raised by [incident.conductor@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.conductor%40web-summit.dinis), [incident.media@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.media%40web-summit.dinis), [incident.wikipedia@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.wikipedia%40web-summit.dinis) · opened 2026-11-11 01:03 UTC · card `a-user-agent` on [the board](../index.md#a-user-agent)

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](../items/j-wikipedia-3.md) · 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](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.html#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](../../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](a-user-agent.json). Not a warning service.