Ilmari Karonen wrote:
On 01/11/2011 11:59 AM, Jérémie Roquet wrote:
And there's a handy property to determine if you have new messages: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=...
Unfortunately (or fortunately), userinfo cannot be retrived using jsonp [1].
[1] « callback - If specified, wraps the output into a given function call. For safety, all user-specific data will be restricted. » —
Hmm, true. You might be able to emulate the functionality by using prop=info on the user's talk page (and perhaps storing the last time the user visited the page in a cookie).
(Ps. It strikes me that the simplest and most efficient way to implement cross-wiki user talk notifications would be as a MediaWiki extension. Why do we not have one already?)
Nobody has written it yet. It would be like GlobalUsage. One big table listing data from all wikis. Although it should be able to take advantage from CentralAuth, adding a field into localuser table.