[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords

[David Gerard]

Update: The developer of watchlistr is now discussing on wikitech-l
how to do this on the toolserver, and how to authenticate without
passwords being saved on the toolserver (which is not allowed).
Further detail no doubt to come :-)


- d.



2009/7/22 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> fyi

> From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com>
> Date: 2009/7/22
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for
> Wikimedia passwords
> To: wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org

> I'm not sure what to do about this; it seems like a good idea but a
> major security risk:
> http://www.watchlistr.com/ is a site that creates aggregate watchlists
> across multiple projects. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bounty_board#Transwiki_watchlist_tool