But won't the people in Iran or China would be able to access the Wikimedia
sites through http instead of https? And what about accessing through https
within Wikipedia Zero? Is cost-free access available through https?
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 June
Uh, I’m from a Third World country, and while I know the Internet here in the
Philippines is shitty, I don’t think the WMF can be blamed for that. I’ve been
using HTTPS for quite a while now and for the most part, it works normally.
Let’s try to avoid overly generalizing the developing world
On 14 June 2015 at 05:21, Comet styles cometsty...@gmail.com wrote:
China and Iran blocks https (and WMF thinks https is more secure than
http when it can be EASILY blocked lol)
China is currently blocking HTTP and has done so quite frequently. The
ability to block is largely unrelated to
Dry article creation with little actual community interaction like
discussions, arguments and reverts, is problematic, but it does have one
overlooked advantage, which I myself didn't quite realize just a few months
ago: Creating a lot of texts that are known to be corresponding (a.k.a.
parallel)
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
And either I missed it, or nobody mentioned it yet, but ahem ahem ahem
ContentTranslation. It is already helping Wikipedias in minorized languages
to create a lot of meaningful articles more easily, and with
Hi all,
Our understanding is that there is currently no country where only HTTPS
access to Wikipedia is blocked. In Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#Iran, the
government appears to have been blocking select Wikipedia articles at
different times.[1] The Great Firewall of
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
One more lame mistake: It's not about countries, but about languages.
Thus: немачки, njemački, њемачки, njemački,
Khm... немачки, nemački, њемачки, njemački,
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a short note here... The complexity of the task, which I think I
comprehend, is so significant, that I made the lamest mistake from my
own perspective. Please note that the page Names of Wikimedia
languages [1] assumes
I should also mention that while we try to be as transparent as possible in
all our work (including holding community consultations around all major
legal policies and providing frequent updates on our work), there are very
limited situations where public discussions could actually hurt free
