ZoteroTranslationServer

What is ZoteroTranslationServer?

About

ZoteroTranslationServer extracts citation metadata from URLs, DOIs, and ISBNs using Zotero translators to power Wikimedia's Citoid service for automated reference generation. You can see how often ZoteroTranslationServer visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Wikimedia
Last Updated	18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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Country of Origin

Unknown

ZoteroTranslationServer has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block ZoteroTranslationServer?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block ZoteroTranslationServer?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block ZoteroTranslationServer or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block ZoteroTranslationServer

User-agent: ZoteroTranslationServer
Disallow: /