On 15 February 2011 15:43, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Using an external API or service by including stuff
from third-party
sites would send users' IP addresses to those sites, which would
violate Wikimedia's privacy policy, so this isn't an issue for us.
There are people loading javascript from toolserver:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js/watchlist.js (I'm
sure the toolserver can be fixed to make ssl work in this case, but it
seems quite broken for https at the moment)
Conrad