On 21/08/13 12:22, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, George William Herbert > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The change must be delayed until people geographically / nationally denied >> HTTPS can log in again. > > Tim's working on a patch that should make this possible: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80166/ > > The plan of record right now is to not make the switch til we have > that merged & tested. We may still be able to make the launch window > tomorrow - RobLa will make the final call on that.
I don't think it is a great idea to enable $wgSecureLogin with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/47089/ unreverted and unfixed. And my own patches probably need more testing. > In general, though, I'd prefer for WMF to move away from what could be > characterized as appeasement and towards actively resisting censorship > and monitoring. So I'd argue in favor of a deadline for this approach, > and alignment of resources and alliances to take active measures > against censorship and monitoring. That's not really what I signed up for. I would like WMF to play an increasing role in the education of the people of the PRC, and I think actively resisting censorship is opposed to that goal. We will be blocked, and thus lose almost all of our PRC traffic. I support circumvention of China's censorship, and more fundamentally, I want China to be more open and democratic. However, I think that measures to achieve these goals should be done at arm's length from the Foundation. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
