Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Yana Welinder wrote: > I should also mention that while we try to be as transparent as possible in > all our work (including holding community consultations around all major > legal policies and providing frequent updates on our work), there are very > limited situ

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

>I should also mention that while we try to be as transparent as possible in >all our work (including holding community consultations around all major >legal policies and providing frequent updates on our work), there are very >limited situations where public discussions could actually hurt free ac

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

Hi all, Our understanding is that there is currently no country where only HTTPS access to Wikipedia is blocked. In Iran , the government appears to have been blocking select Wikipedia articles at different times.[1] The Great Firewall of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Languages] Wikipedia article per speaker

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > One more lame mistake: It's not about countries, but about languages. > Thus: немачки, njemački, њемачки, njemački, Khm... немачки, nemački, њемачки, njemački, ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Languages] Wikipedia article per speaker

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Just a short note here... The complexity of the task, which I think I > comprehend, is so significant, that I made the lamest mistake from my > own perspective. Please note that the page Names of Wikimedia > languages [1] assumes that there is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Languages] Wikipedia article per speaker

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > And either I missed it, or nobody mentioned it yet, but ahem ahem ahem > ContentTranslation. It is already helping Wikipedias in minorized languages > to create a lot of meaningful articles more easily, and with future features > like task

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Languages] Wikipedia article per speaker

Dry article creation with little actual community interaction like discussions, arguments and reverts, is problematic, but it does have one overlooked advantage, which I myself didn't quite realize just a few months ago: Creating a lot of texts that are known to be corresponding (a.k.a. parallel) c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

But won't the people in Iran or China would be able to access the Wikimedia sites through http instead of https? And what about accessing through https within Wikipedia Zero? Is cost-free access available through https? On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM, geni wrote: > On 14 June 2015 at 05:21, Co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

Uh, I’m from a Third World country, and while I know the Internet here in the Philippines is shitty, I don’t think the WMF can be blamed for that. I’ve been using HTTPS for quite a while now and for the most part, it works normally. Let’s try to avoid overly generalizing the developing world he