On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, context please? >
Continuation of this thread from wikitech-l: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/thread.html#71285 tl;dr summary: * ops plans to switch logins to HTTPS * switching all logins to HTTPS is known to break access for logged-in users in countries where Wikimedia's HTTPS servers are blocked by government censorship * there are some plans to mitigate this by excluding some languages from the requirement * this is controversial for several reasons, one of which is that it will break access for users in those countries on language projects that are not excepted (eg English Wikipedia in mainland China) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
