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Wikimedia sites are apparently going https only, which means that any code using http:// may break. The [[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/| announcement ]] is very light on details. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#2015 Both core and compat support using https, however they both have instances where a URL is created manually (not via Family methods), and that URL has a http:// protocol/schema. I suspect that the servers will still forward http:// URLs to https:// , but that needs to be confirmed. In any case, we should fix any instances where the code is using the Family methods to create a URL. Here is one regex to see some examples of the problem ``` git grep '^[^#@]*http:\/\/.*wiki.*\.org' ```