I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server
link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help.
Ashwin
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached). I've
asked her to run malware
Dear all,
I am extremely sorry that this report is long overdue but as I was busy
with my exams and other stuff, I literally did not get time to compile
this. This is related to the Wikipedia Stall I helped set up in Netaji
Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata. NSEC had their annual
Well done, hard lessons have been learned. Each such event will give
you ideas to make things better! Keep up the good work in outreach.
Ashwin
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
debast...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am extremely sorry that this report is long overdue
It would good to know whether using https instead of http stops the ad
injection. I'm not sure that it will help.
To help find the problem, we need to know what Internet Explorer
add-ons have been installed on their computer.
The screenshot shows that the person is using Chrome so I don't think the
IE point stands here.
The ads also seem to be intermittent, my friend cannot see them anymore.
Usage of https may resolve the problem, but looking for a solution with the
normal Wikipedia may be necessary as several people
The solution is to remove the malware. The project can't fix something that
exists on the end users computer. I will renew my plea for anyone who can get
the code of this thing to send it to Tim Starling.
PB
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-Original Message-
From: Srikeit
Sorry Srikeit! I did assume it was Internet Explorer because I
foolishly didnt believe that Google Chrome allows ad injection!?
apparently it does...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9960350/inject-advertisements-in-pages
however they must be clearly marked.
ads must be outside the page's
