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Wikimedia user-agent policy
A policy governing the User-Agent strings for requests to Wikimedia services.
- python wikipedia library: random()/page() throws JSONDecodeError (429 on default user-agent)
Set your own User-Agent instead of Python/requests' default: too many clients share the default UA and get collectively rate-limited by Wikipedia, which surfaces as a JSONDecodeError because the 429 response has no JSON body. Configure a de