[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Status of HTTPS support on Wikimedia Foundation projects

[Peter Eckersley]

Hi Roan,

Can you pull from the git master before making further changes the the
Wikipedia ruleset?  Osama Khalid has also been adjusting the Wikipedia
exclusions list, and your commit today conflicts with his changes.

It doesn't help that this is a giant 525 character line entry in the ruleset,
so git is of no use in merging changes to it.  Perhaps we should split it into
multiple exclusions, with a reasonable number of characters per line?

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:24:35PM +0200, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> Thank for for noticing that, Christopher. Wikimedia has now officially
> announced that native HTTPS support has been enabled for all wikis
> [1]. Over the weekend, I have branched the Wikipedia ruleset on github
> [2] and changed it to point to the new https URLs instead of
> secure.wikimedia.org .
> 
> However, we have a bunch of stray non-wiki *.wikimedia.org domains
> lying around (like svn.wm.o, nagios.wm.o, you name it) of which some
> do and some don't support HTTPS. I ran into a few when testing the
> ruleset on my local machine, but we'll probably need to do a
> systematic survey of all domains and identify the ones that don't
> support https and therefore need exclusion rules. I'll ask our ops
> people to help with this. In the meantime, the ruleset in my
> wikipedia-newhttps should be treated as experimental and should not be
> included in a release of HTTPSEverywhere just yet. When we've tracked
> down all the non-https domains and believe the ruleset to be complete,
> we'll let you know :)
> 
> Roan Kattouw
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 
> P.S.: Please CC me on any replies, as I am not subscribed to this list.
> 
> [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis/
> [2] https://github.com/catrope/https-everywhere/commits/wikipedia-newhttps

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