On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Carlos Monterrey > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here is the proposed SM for today's blog post regarding the lawsuit in >> Greece. Thanks for reviewing. > > (stripped out the non-links) >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/23/greek-wikipedia-user-wins-key-hearing-in-defamation-case/ >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#September_23 >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/23/greek-wikipedia-user-wins-key-hearing-in-defamation-case/ >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/23/greek-wikipedia-user-wins-key-hearing-in-defamation-case/ >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/23/greek-wikipedia-user-wins-key-hearing-in-defamation-case/ > > IMHO, when we link from social media and press releases to our own > sites (including blogs and wikis) we should always make those URLs use > HTTPS?
I agree, it's a good practice and we usually do that anyway. The only small exception I can think of is when one really, really needs one extra character to squeeze a tweet into the 140 character limit - Twitter shortens HTTPS links to 23 characters, but HTTP links to 22 characters. > > Any objections? > > -Jeremy > > (P.S. what about forcing HTTPS for all visitors to the blog?) > Hmm... might be possible, with the same considerations as for WMF sites. Not on top of the todo list for the blog, though. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
