Hello,
I was encouraged (hello, Sumana) to post a Google Summer of Code idea and solicit comments. So here goes.
Perhaps entirely outside of the scope of GSOC, I think it would be a fun project to make wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org accessible over IPv6.
Also, while creating an account to post to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option. Adding a secure login feature would also be a cool project.
Cheers,
mc
There is an SSL option: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/MediaWiki . However, making https://www.mediawiki.org would be another useful project.
2011/4/4 Michael Costello mc3401@columbia.edu
Hello,
I was encouraged (hello, Sumana) to post a Google Summer of Code idea and solicit comments. So here goes.
Perhaps entirely outside of the scope of GSOC, I think it would be a fun project to make wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org accessible over IPv6.
Also, while creating an account to post to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option. Adding a secure login feature would also be a cool project.
Cheers,
mc
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On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:19:54 -0400 Jelle Zijlstra jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com wrote:
However, making https://www.mediawiki.org would be another useful project.
That would be useful from a privacy point of view, though just making all logins secure by default would be good first start. Making the entire site SSL-capable would be an interesting engineering problem: can the increased cost due to higher server load be amortized over the number of users given their typical browsing habits?
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:20:08 -0400 Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
There is a secure login option, and the login page has a link to it, but the link wasn't showing up in the right place in the Vector skin. I think I've fixed it.[0]
I see it now. Thanks!
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:21:54 +1000 "K. Peachey" p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
also I thought we did have IPV6 setup for the sites.....
You're absolutely right.
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/IPv6_deployment
And it looks like there is more work do.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Michael Costello mc3401@columbia.edu wrote:
I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option.
There is a secure login option, and the login page has a link to it, but the link wasn't showing up in the right place in the Vector skin. I think I've fixed it.[0]
[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Loginend&curid=4562...
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Michael Costello mc3401@columbia.edu wrote:
Perhaps entirely outside of the scope of GSOC, I think it would be a fun project to make wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org accessible over IPv6.
I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option. Adding a secure login feature would also be a cool project.
You can connect via the secure server[1] but that seems to be down atm(?), also I thought we did have IPV6 setup for the sites.....
[1]. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:UserLogin
Interesting. That would be an -ops project, not a software development one. It seems a riskier deliverable, although certainly interesting for WMF.
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