2009/7/22 Michael Rosenthal <rosenthal3000(a)googlemail.com>om>:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:59 PM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/22 Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
http://www.watchlistr.com/ is a site that
creates aggregate watchlists
>> across multiple projects. See
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bounty_board#Transwiki_…
>> The user who made it has very little editing history, and the site
>> aggregates watchlists across multiple projects, but requires inputting
>> your Wikimedia password into the
watchlistr.com site. I have no
>> specific reason to think it's a scam, but if I was trying to phish
>> passwords I would do something like this.
> Would something on the toolserver be safe enough
in these terms?
The toolserver rules forbid that:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules (#8)
However there is gWatch which works without authentication:
http://toolserver.org/~luxo/gwatch/login.php
Mmm. So solving this properly would require solving many of the
various consolidated/multiple watchlist bugs in MediaWiki itself,
then.
- d.