Billinghurst wrote:
Following on from a recent discussion here, I have
been trying to
watch the WMF world from a secure login.
First statement is that it is problematic as so many links fail in the
interwiki space. I cannot work out why some links to other wikis work
fine and always take me to a secure server, whereas on other occasions
I will only be offered a link to a normal http protocol within WMF.
Interwikis in a standard form are very problematic, well at least in
some places, eg.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Author:Alfred_Tennyson
both the direct link
That's a known bug.
and the <=> links from [Extension:DoubleWiki
Extension]
That's a bug in BilingualLink() function in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]].
Talk with Pathoschild.
The sister links on that page are similarly
problematic
Same issue as normal interwikis.
There's one javascript in Commons fixing those links. They are equally
broken if visiting with javascript disabled. See
[[commons:MediaWiki:Common.js/secure.js]]
[Note that I haven't done a forensic analysis,
this is all through wanderings]
Add to the issue is that so many of the local servers don't have a
link to the secure servers as it is not a default configuration.
Also something that creates difficulties is that the favicon is the
same for all
secure.wikimedia.org pages, and when one is working on
four or five properties at a time and all the tabs show "[W] My
Watchlist" it does get very confusing. If there was some
differentiation that would be helpful.
Yep. Would be nice to get it fixed.
To add to that I am unable to find the information to
try and
understand more about the background to the issue. Any
thought/guidance/pointers?