On 23 August 2013 23:31, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are other options. The question is whether or not they can be made to > work in the MediaWiki/WMF circumstances. If you looked at the data > collected to see where HTTPS attempts were unsuccessful, you'd see that > there are editors in a lot of countries with issues (i.e., greater than 5% > failure rates), and most of them are technical issues. Suddenly you're not > just talking about a few projects, you're talking about dozens who may have > difficulty getting CU/OS support internally.
That doesn't change the security consideration. > The people in our many overlapping MediaWiki and Wikimedia communities have > come up with a lot of very creative solutions to problems that other sites > haven't figured out or don't care enough to bother with. I have a lot of > faith that some out of the box thinking might very well resolve this > specific issue, and possibly open a gateway to solving the security issue > for even larger groups. And until then, it actually needs to be HTTPS-only. I'm horrified it isn't already. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
