> Can we force HTTPS for the game so we're not leaking usernames over cleartext 
> HTTP? (not just because the edits can be correlated with who was asked about 
> them but also the game interface displays your username and a user could do 
> Wikidata actions in your name if they got your HTTP cookie in the clear)

 

I would support this change.

 

Thank you,

Derric Atzrott

 

From: gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Baron
Sent: 22 May 2014 00:00
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Wikidata, gamification and gender

 

FYI, msg from another list below.

-Jeremy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jeremy Baron" <jer...@tuxmachine.com>
Date: May 21, 2014 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] micro-contributions on mobile via wikidata
To: "Magnus Manske" <magnusman...@googlemail.com>
Cc: "mobile-l" <mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org>

> On May 21, 2014 9:55 PM, "Jeremy Baron" <jer...@tuxmachine.com> wrote:
> > On May 21, 2014 9:07 PM, "Erik Moeller" <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Most of these "games" would be great in a mobile context.
> > >
> > > The current design is already responsive - but I wasn't able to
> > > actually get the OAuth authorization to work on mobile, at least not
> > > on Firefox/Android :(
> >
> > I just did it with Firefox. I think I first hit "allow" on desktop 
> > MediaWiki and then got an "application connection error" from mobile. 
> > Unknown OAuth key, E006.
> >
> > Then went back to tool labs, hit the button again and back to desktop 
> > MediaWiki. Now the dialog had some bad styles or something so some of the 
> > text was hidden and I couldn't see the buttons at all. Manually changed URL 
> > from www.mediawiki.org → m.mediawiki.org and then authorized through 
> > mobilefrontend and finally got the game working.
>
> A couple more issues (but not strictly mobile things):
>
> * You may want to avoid merges/"same item" tasks until 
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions 
> <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions&oldid=132186913>
>  &oldid=132186913 is resolved.
> * Can we force HTTPS for the game so we're not leaking usernames over 
> cleartext HTTP? (not just because the edits can be correlated with who was 
> asked about them but also the game interface displays your username and a 
> user could do Wikidata actions in your name if they got your HTTP cookie in 
> the clear)
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jeremy

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