Technology report
HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
The rollout of HTTPS only (see previous Signpost coverage, blog post) has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis. The HTTPS link is now marked as the canonical version through a <link rel="canonical" ..> tag on each page. For example, the Main Page has a <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=Main_Page" /> tag. This instructs search engines to use the HTTPS version of the page. In addition, the servers are sending a HSTS header which tells the browser to only visit the website over HTTPS. Currently the expiry for the header is set to 3 days, and it is planned to increase it over time. More details are available on Meta-Wiki.