On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm not talking about right now. Right now is okay (consensuses of the > community because of availability of SSL of WMF projects since August > 25 in Iran) to enable SSL as default like other countries and I'm > asking to do that, but I'm saying do this if you don't enforce editors > to use SSL by hiding the option in preference > > I'm talking about stance of Persian Wikipedia about switching whole > traffic of the site and shutting down http:// in future too. This > action will drop number of readers in Iran by 95-99% you'll loose > almost all of readers. It's a "safety vs. accessibility" issue and I'm > saying this much concern about safety will cause enormous lack of > accessibility in Iran > > We have no current plans to ever disable HTTP and force the use of HTTPS. I know there was another thread about this on wikimedia-l, but there's no consensus for doing this and at this point isn't something you should worry about. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
