Someone changed the setup such that the core Javascript files such as wikibits.js, ajax.js, ajaxwatch.js, etc. are now loaded from http://upload.wikimedia.org. While I can understand the desire to centralize things, this is a bad idea. It breaks for all people surfing with off-site scripts disabled. Since these scripts provide essential functionality, they really should be loaded from the same server as the page itself.
Please revert this change.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
herd wrote:
Site configuration change on WMF, not a software change, adjusting component field.
If you choose to break HTML standard by disabling offsite scripts, you'll find a lot of the net doesn't work. Offsite scripts are already used for cross-wiki sharing, maps, etc, and are required for any sort of data interchange. We'll only see more of that in the future.
Now, if you just want to disable scripts, you can continue to get the no-script experience which will be missing some extra goodies but should still basically work.