I don't understand the email also... The secure site has been arround for years...
2011/2/13, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com>: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Someone posted a link to >>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage >> >> Delving further, we find >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Main_Page says >> Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, when in fact the real site is >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page . Or is it? >> >> In fact on any page on either site, one cannot find any link to the >> corresponding page on the other site. >> >> So now everybody will be passing around two times the amount of links to >> what in fact is the same material. >> >> OK, I found the pattern for converting one to the other: >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage >> _________________ >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage >> >> One would hope the owners of Wiki[pm]would redirect etc. one to the >> other, to stem the proliferation of non-canonical links. > > What in the Christ are you talking about? > > Reading with squinted eyes and a cocked head, it sounds like you've > discovered the secure site. It's documented here: > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Secure_server > * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/secure.wikimedia.org > > I have no idea what this has to do with hogtie bondage or why a post to this > mailing list (or the gendergap mailing list, for that matter) was necessary. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Verzonden vanaf mijn mobiele apparaat Regards, Huib "Abigor" Laurens Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
