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?)