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
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