On 19 August 2013 21:31, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19 August 2013 21:09, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 19 August 2013 20:35, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Quick question: will the patch that was just merged regarding > > > removing > > > > > the > > > > > > "Stay on HTTPS" checkbox be deployed by then? Or will that be a > > > > separate > > > > > > deployment? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm going to work on getting that merged to all relevant branches > > > > > either tonight or tomorrow, so yes, it will be included. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Congrats to everyone for getting this going. Is there a workaround > > > > available for people behind the Great Firewall to log into projects > in > > > > languages other than those that are exempted? If so, what is the > best > > > way > > > > for those individual users to contact Operations or whoever, outside > of > > > > IRC? I'm fairly certain some of those users may not want to have to > > > > publicize their locations. I see mention of an email address: could > > that > > > > be created before the change please? > > > > > > > > > > > Some projects are being left out of the initial rollout. Users that use > > > those projects as their home wiki will still log-in to HTTP by default > > and > > > will get a central auth cookie that will work for other projects as > well. > > > > > > Users who are logged in over HTTPS and feel that it is too slow for > their > > > area or device can disable HTTPS redirection in their preferences to > > > continue using the site in HTTP mode. > > > > > > - Ryan > > > > > > > > > Okay, perhaps I wasn't clear. What I am referring to are editors from > > China or Iran who regularly log into projects that will be covered with > > HTTPS, as we know that HTTPS is (at least sometimes) blocked in those > > countries. Remember that you're including Commons, Meta, and all English > > projects - and yes, it is the right thing to do. But we do have a > > non-negligible number of users (including administrators and stewards) > who > > will need to have a way to access these projects. Do you have a way to > > exempt them? > > > > > As I mentioned above. As long as they log-in to their home wiki, they will > get a central auth cookie that will keep them logged-in on every other > project, which includes commons, meta, etc. If they visit other projects as > an anonymous user and try to log in, they'll be redirected to HTTPS, which > will fail. > >
Well, see. The problem is that the home projects for these editors are not Farsi or Chinese, they are English or German or Commons or Meta (and a few other languages too - and that is just the editors I personally have had contact with). So, is your recommendation to these editors that they log in using the Chinese or Farsi project and then traverse to their home wiki from there? Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
