Petr Kadlec wrote:
Hi, folks.
Recently, the problem of user tracking via third party companies has been debated on mailing lists. I wonder, if an inclusion of the jQuery library linked directly from Google servers (!) does not qualify as a bad idea, too… (Even though no user tracking has obviously been intended, and due to caching, privacy violation is extremely limited.) See http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js (added on 2009-05-22 http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=10119416&diffonly=1).
Yes it is a bad idea. A number of extensions hosted on Wikimedia have a copy of jQuery, you can easily find a copy, e.g.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/extensions/Collection/collection/jquery.js http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/Resources/jquery.js http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/extensions/OpenID/skin/jquery-1.3.2.min.js
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