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Fixing HTTPS on Wikimedia wikis

Hi. I was just editing a few smaller projects and I noticed that Google Chrome was throwing a warning about loading insecure content. This is likely due to sites not maintaining their local JavaScript and CSS pages. These pages need to be updated to use protocol-relative URLs (//foo.example.com rather than http://foo.example.com). Is this something that the stewards or global sysops could take care of, please? --MZMcBride 01:27, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a job these guys could help with. Why not stewards as well, of course. Jafeluv 12:31, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible only by bot, to be run on all wikis (except the very big ones), so that we help them fix it and explain the situation (many won't even know the new HTTPS system); onviously, with link to documentation and discussion. Even my silly script should suffice, it doesn't break anything, although it can't fix every edge case and can (at present) remove some legitimate links from code comments. Nemo 08:52, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Nemo Bis that it should be done globally except on big wikis where a notice should at least be put locally first. But I don't know if we should do something before replacing massively by bot or not. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 09:01, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]