WMF Zotero Translation Server
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How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
ZoteroTranslationServer/WMF
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control WMF Zotero Translation Server:
Allow full access
User-agent: ZoteroTranslationServer/WMF
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: ZoteroTranslationServer/WMF
Disallow: /
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