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@gmail.com:
fyi
From: Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com Date: 2009/7/22 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords To: wikitech-l@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_w...