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)y=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.