Billinghurst wrote: > Following on from a recent discussion here, I have been trying to > watch the WMF world from a secure login. > > First statement is that it is problematic as so many links fail in the > interwiki space. I cannot work out why some links to other wikis work > fine and always take me to a secure server, whereas on other occasions > I will only be offered a link to a normal http protocol within WMF. > > Interwikis in a standard form are very problematic, well at least in > some places, eg. > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Author:Alfred_Tennyson > both the direct link That's a known bug.
> and the <=> links from [Extension:DoubleWiki Extension] That's a bug in BilingualLink() function in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. Talk with Pathoschild. > The sister links on that page are similarly problematic Same issue as normal interwikis. > Yet if I pop over to Commons, and go to a pages like > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson > there do not seem the similar problems. Is it due to Commons being on > the same path? There's one javascript in Commons fixing those links. They are equally broken if visiting with javascript disabled. See [[commons:MediaWiki:Common.js/secure.js]] > [Note that I haven't done a forensic analysis, this is all through wanderings] > > Add to the issue is that so many of the local servers don't have a > link to the secure servers as it is not a default configuration. > > Also something that creates difficulties is that the favicon is the > same for all secure.wikimedia.org pages, and when one is working on > four or five properties at a time and all the tabs show "[W] My > Watchlist" it does get very confusing. If there was some > differentiation that would be helpful. Yep. Would be nice to get it fixed. > To add to that I am unable to find the information to try and > understand more about the background to the issue. Any > thought/guidance/pointers? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
