[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st

[Brion Vibber]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, context please?
>


Continuation of this thread from wikitech-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/thread.html#71285


tl;dr summary:
* ops plans to switch logins to HTTPS
* switching all logins to HTTPS is known to break access for logged-in
users in countries where Wikimedia's HTTPS servers are blocked by
government censorship
* there are some plans to mitigate this by excluding some languages from
the requirement
* this is controversial for several reasons, one of which is that it will
break access for users in those countries on language projects that are not
excepted (eg English Wikipedia in mainland China)

-- brion