Pywikibot: weblinkchecker.py configurable fake user-agent
weblinkchecker.py's fake user-agent should use the new get_fake_user_agent in the pywikibot.comms.http module.
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71204 for this task, and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113596 for the functionality that is being added.
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