[Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

[Anthony]

What is this "hard-enabled" and "soft-enabled"?  If the Chinese volunteer
editor community requests that HTTPS be "soft-enabled" for them, and you do
so, does that solve anything?

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Roth <mroth at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> We've also hard-enabled HTTPS on all of our
> private wikis and have soft-enabled HTTPS on a single wiki (Uzbek
> Wikipedia), when it was requested by the volunteer editor community there."