Following on from a recent discussion here, I have been trying to
watch the WMF world from a secure login.
First statement is that it is problematic as so many links fail in the
interwiki space. I cannot work out why some links to other wikis work
fine and always take me to a secure server, whereas on other occasions
I will only be offered a link to a normal http protocol within WMF.
Interwikis in a standard form are very problematic, well at least in
some places, eg.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Author:Alfred_Tennyson
both the direct link and the <=> links from [Extension:DoubleWiki Extension]
The sister links on that page are similarly problematic
Yet if I pop over to Commons, and go to a pages like
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Alfred_Lord_Te…
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson
there do not seem the similar problems. Is it due to Commons being on
the same path?
[Note that I haven't done a forensic analysis, this is all through wanderings]
Add to the issue is that so many of the local servers don't have a
link to the secure servers as it is not a default configuration.
Also something that creates difficulties is that the favicon is the
same for all
secure.wikimedia.org pages, and when one is working on
four or five properties at a time and all the tabs show "[W] My
Watchlist" it does get very confusing. If there was some
differentiation that would be helpful.
To add to that I am unable to find the information to try and
understand more about the background to the issue. Any
thought/guidance/pointers?
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