On 0, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com scribbled:
On 07/09/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
You can edit Wikipedia securely from here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page It's slower, but the connection is SSL, so can't be snooped - only the fact of a transaction can be snooped. Your IP will show up in the server logs, so will be viewable by Wikimedia sysadmins or by those with checkuser, but it's as secure as we can do.
Note also this is a bit beta, so check you're still logged in as you and so on before you hit "edit". (You may wish to choose a different skin to Monobook to give a clear visual clue as to whether you're logged in.)
- d.
I've been editing this way for quite a while, so I'd like to caution everyone who is thinking about editing this way. A number of JavaScript extensions break when you edit through secure.wikimedia, and sometimes quite badly. (The last one I investigated enough to discover that the extension was assuming that the file path of the article on was viewing could be given in terms of the root directory by going "/wiki/article-name". This obviously doesn't work when you are not on en.wikipedia.org/ but secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/.) In addition, I think I've noticed a pervasive but moderate slow down (unsurprising, really) as compared to going through en.wikipedia.org.
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