[HTTPS-Everywhere] ruleset update suggestion: exclude wiktionary

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

Thank you for the replies - yes, specifying the language does the job,
but adding an exception would make the extension more user-friendly.

Cheers!

Alex

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at eff.org> wrote:
> Marti Raudsepp writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:44, Alexandros Papadopoulos
>> <alexandros.papadopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://www.wiktionary.org takes people to
>> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/www/wiki/
>>
>> Try http://en.wiktionary.org/, works for me...
>> Looks like the 'www' subdomain is just an exception that the ruleset
>> should handle differently.
>
> You're both right.  There is an HTTPS version of Wiktionary if
> you specify the language, but the current behavior if you use
> www.wiktionary.org is a bug because the treatment isn't
> parallel to the other Wikimedia Foundation wikis.  We can add
> an exclusion for that.
>
> But if you're already familiar with the Wikimedia project you
> want, you should normally specify the language in the URL,
> like pt.wikipedia.org, de.wiktionary.org, es.wikisource.org,
> and so on.  HTTPS Everywhere does handle all of those
> cases correctly, as far as we know.
>
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