Well, what we could do just as well is trying to load normally, but when it fails immediately load through Orbot. The delays should be minimal most of the time, and the crucial part is that a) users don't have to do anything, install other apps, change the settings - it just works, b) users won't be held responsible for downloading a special app or making a choice to use Tor.
Dj
On Nov 24, 2017 18:38, "Tilman Bayer" tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think this is unlikely to happen, because of the performance degradation (access via Tor will always be slower, which user studies http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/488/htm have shown to be a significant usability issue in the past). But as an option or fallback or separate app it might be a great idea; there is a Phabricator task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163747
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 12:35 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Excellent! Still, as I argued before, I believe that a solution we could use is defaulting to Tor channeling in our mobile app. Facebook offers it as an option in partnership with Orbot - I believe we should do the same, but default to it (so that people cannot be held responsible for making a choice). For unlogged Wikipedia reading this solution is practically transparent for users.
I've recently contacted the WMF with Orbot people and hope that at least we can evaluate this approach as a possibility.
best,
Dariusz Jemielniak "pundit"
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Cristian Consonni cristian@balist.es wrote:
Hi all,
Some months ago, the idea of setting up an onion service for Wikimedia projects was discussed on this list[1] and as a proposal in IdeaLab on Meta[2].
Today, Alec Muffett announced on Twitter[3] that he created «as an experiment» a series of read-only mirrors of all the Wikimedia projects. He will be running them for some time.
The service is reachable with a Tor-enabled browser at the following address: https://www.qgssno7jk2xcr2sj.onion/
If you want to try out the service, first visit the addresses listed in this page and add exceptions for the SSL certificates: https://gist.github.com/alecmuffett/3da587fde6aef90ba3e49e8858fafdae
(this is one of the limits of having a non-official service)
Alec Muffett is the author of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit (EOTK)[4], a FLOSS project which "does for Onions what LetsEncrypt does for SSL", that is providing a simple way to transform websites in Onion services (which are accessible only and contained within the Tor network). Alec used EOTK for creating this demo. He was also behind the onion service for Facebook[5].
IMO this service, even with its current limitations, is quite awesome and I am very happy to see it. It is exactly the kind of proof of concept that I wanted to create with my proposal. So now there's that.
Enjoy!
Cristian
June/087708.html [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Tor_ Onion_Service_for_Wikipedia [3]:https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/933739816038076419 [4]: https://github.com/alecmuffett/eotk [5]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/ 10/facebook-offers-hidden-service-to-tor-users/
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