Understanding comes both ways. Since Snowden's whistleblowing, the tech community has already been denounced by a significant proportion of society as selfish nerds who value their own privacy over (communal / national) security and order. Our switch to https-only (as opposed to https-recommended) is only sealing that impression.
Coincidentally with the switch to https-only, China has blocked the Chinese Wikipedia. We always need to balance security and accessibility. I feel that it is unwise to remove even the option to use Wikimedia without https encryption. With the systemic bias of Wikipedia, I feel that this switch has cost us more in loss of breadth of readership than we gain in security. "Not our fault" is not good enough when an encyclopedia loses a small but significant proportion of its readership, not out of the readers' voluntary choice. Deryck P.S. Nemo: FYI the case in my mind is in the UK, not HK or Mainland China. On 25 June 2015 at 14:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Deryck Chan, 25/06/2015 12:38: > >> Is there a compromise that can be sought? >> > > First comes understanding. It would be very nice to have a map of such > issues; then WMHK could mail all the schools etc. explaining them why > encryption is important and why they should not break it, for the kids' > security's sake. > Then, once we know who can't be convinced/fixed and why, it will be easier > to seek alternatives. > > Nemo > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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