Ambassadors,
If the Wikimedia community you're active in is interested in
participating in continued testing of HTTPS-by-default (beyond
logged-in users), and there's consensus to do so, you can sign up for
the beta program:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/09/10/https-by-default-beta-program/
You can see more about the roadmap to HTTPS-by-default in Ryan's
earlier blog post here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/
Signing up for the beta will mean at minimum that, at some point in
the future, pages will be advertised to search engines with the HTTPS
prefix (via the canonical link element [1]), so while the HTTP prefix
will continue to work at that point, users visiting from search
referrals will be directed to HTTPS, provided the search engine
respects rel="canonical". We call this "soft-enabling". We have not
made a final decision as to whether HTTPS will also be hard-enabled at
some point in the future.
In any case, these improvements will eventually be applied
consistently across our wikis (with possible continued exemptions for
regions like mainland China and Iran where HTTPS traffic is blocked);
the point of the beta program is to get early technical feedback.
All best,
Erik
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation