I guess this is to guard against the WMF changing content behind the scenes? Through court order or otherwise?
The pages are already cryptographically signed for transmission (tls), so you know you get what WMF servers want you to get, at least. Greg -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Sep 13, 2015 6:45 AM, "John" <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > why do they need signed in the first place? > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Purodha Blissenbach < > puro...@blissenbach.org> wrote: > > > In a discussion in the German Pirate Party the idea came up that we might > > want to have cryptographically signed wiki pages. > > I could not find that this has been implemented already anyhow. > > > > Thus, can we develop an extsion which provides cryptographically signed > > wiki pages? > > > > A brief and preliminaly scetch would mean that any user who provides a > > matching public key could sign any existing page. > > Before a page + signature is saved, the signature is checked for > vadility. > > Editing a siged page is possible without resigning it. > > There must be a page display allowing to copy+paste the page with > > signature for external verification. > > Therre should be a button triggering the verifivation via an external > > online service. > > Maybe signature display of signed pages should be suppressable. > > Any numer of independent signatures must be possible to a page. > > > > Does that make sense? Anything vital forgotten? > > > > Feedback welcome. > > > > Greetings -- Purodha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
