On 15 February 2011 15:43, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@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