I'd like to personally thank the technical community for coming through on this solution. The ISP community has not reported mass calls to help desks. It really didn't seem too quick and dirty.
I'm a Firefox HTTPS-Everywhere and NoScript kinda guy, and had no problems switching back and forth by turning scripts on and off. Both wikipedia and wikimedia js had to be turned on, though.... Why?
Text-only users will even see the big edit notice on the main page!
Next time, please consider adding a textual edit notice to Special:UserLogin, where the scripts don't load any banner. Perhaps that could be added to the proposed standard extension?
My guess is there will be a next time. ;-)
"WAS" == William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com writes:
WAS> Text-only users will even see the big edit notice on the main page!
Who stops by the Main Page these days?
We text-only users just strangely couldn't find any Edit buttons yesterday.
en.wp was locked to stewards and staff only edits for the day. So even if you found a way around the blacktext-of-sopa-doom, it was read only.
That's why there was no edit button.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 22:15, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
"WAS" == William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com
writes:
WAS> Text-only users will even see the big edit notice on the main page!
Who stops by the Main Page these days?
We text-only users just strangely couldn't find any Edit buttons yesterday.
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On 1/18/12 10:46 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
Next time, please consider adding a textual edit notice to Special:UserLogin, where the scripts don't load any banner. Perhaps that could be added to the proposed standard extension?
This morning, Special:UserLogin has the scripted "thank you" banner. Very nice. And the link through to Special:CongressLookup looks good, too!
Of course, since my proposed edit notice would only be during edit outages, there's probably no good way to have it as a thank you.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a Firefox HTTPS-Everywhere and NoScript kinda guy, and had no problems switching back and forth by turning scripts on and off. Both wikipedia and wikimedia js had to be turned on, though.... Why?
Probably because most of the JavaScript is served from bits.wikimedia.org ?
Roan
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