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Secure Wiki

Provides a secure connection with wikipedia and other sister projects.

Wikipedia (as well as other wikimedia projects) have the ability to provide connection to users using https. This feature can be very useful on the login page and/or in places with active censorship over the internet.
This script ensures that wikipedia, and wikipedia's sister projects use the https connection.

The script works well, yet it's still the first version, and many enhancement are still possible.
If you have problem with it, drop a comment in order to try to fix out bugs.

List of wikimedia projects "secured" by this script :
-wikipedia
-wiktionary
-wikinews
-wikibooks
-wikiquote
-wikisource
-wikiversity (Newly updated!)

If you are interested, you can find as well, as mentioned in my blog a search engine for Firefox that I've uploaded here where you can search directly for Wikipedia's article in "secure mode".

Update: Following the comment by Jeff Martin




Jun 13, 2008
Daniel Gonzá... Scriptwright

This other script changes the links on webpages to secure Wikipedia: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26924

 
Dec 27, 2007
ahoier User

very cool script :) I for one didn't realize Wikipedia had an HTTPS login page, that's GREAT to know for those users who edit Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia wikis) on the TOR network, or even from "public terminals" in which neighbors on the public network could be packet sniffing.

If only Wikimedia would use HTTPS login by default...

 
Jul 26, 2007
Jeff Martin Scriptwright

You can reduce clutter in history/back by replacing line 69:

location.href=fixlink(location.href);

with this line:

location.replace( fixlink(location.href) );

With the current way, the history/back button will go back to the unsecured version of the wiki on initial navigation into the wiki. But use location.replace() will replace the URL rather than adding to the history last.

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