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 and the <=> links from [Extension:DoubleWiki Extension] The sister links on that page are similarly problematic 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? [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. 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using iSage/AuNix webmail http://www.isage.net.au/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
