Re: kicksecure wiki & existing documentation on Whonix website.
I don’t agree wtih the principle re: removing wiki pages on Whonix that are common to both and redirecting readers to the other website:
Readers often don’t read the existing documentation on whonix.org as it stands (just look at forum posts re: people often asking basic questions that are already answered in docs i.e. haven’t done their homework). Splitting across two websites will just increase that problem.
Better IMO to have one “complete” set of documentation in one place for simplicity and as a definitive security and privacy guide.
The kicksecure site can remain very simple and just get occasional page updates to match whonix.org documentation as required i.e. focused on security as you pointed out.
The vast majority of the user population is likely to remain focused on Whonix for many years to come → kicksecure is a novelty at present that is unlikely to have a large, standalone user base.
Whonix is well known, but the kicksecure base not so much.
Etc.
On that basis, I would reject those suggested edits that is redirecting certain pages to kicksecure.com
Sure - will have a look.
Also, re: Kicksecure logo.
I like the last two:
Small padlock with full text; or
Just the wording with the nice, weird “K”
If I had to choose, probably #1.
Will get to other recent, suggested edits when I have a chance. Christmas time is busy…
For many it’s “issue → ask somewhere”. I don’t think it would make a difference.
Problem is, there are ~ 70 repositories on Whonix · GitLab. Security / anonymity all mixed up. The security parts cannot get as much outside attention if mixed up with anonymity. By a clean separation of projects, I hope things will look less daunting and easier to grasp.
Documentation in Whonix wiki would be complete because Whonix /wiki/Documentation would continue to have a complete overview even some links are to an external website, i.e. Kicksecure wiki.
Some problems:
Lots of duplication for things which are the same for Kicksecure and Whonix
Hard to keep track of backporting improvements from one wiki to the other wiki, especially if both versions have been edited independently
Occasional page updates in the KIcksecure would be harder than one might imagine. Many Whonix wiki pages are 95-99% unspecific to anonymity and about security only. But the remaining 1-5% anonymity specific content would make these pages unfit for unmodified copy/paste into Kicksecure wiki.
By not filling up Kicksecure wiki with relevant documentation for users and security features developer documentation, restricting the project to have minimal documentation, would be kinda maintaining the project with handbrakes on.
I am expecting the Kicksecure user base to exceed the Whonix user base since it’s simpler to use, no VMs required, the computer security enthusiasts community being a magnitude bigger than the anonymity enthusiasts community, no slow browsing speeds and all the anonymity knowledge not required.
Unfortunately these edits are ongoing and already done according to my instructions for 3 weeks.
No more need to add links (onion). Easy to illustrate the alternative onion link by using the new link template. There are no longer extraneous links to the web archive for onion links (which would be broken since web archive does not support onion links).
A new wiki header has been deployed. It has been re-implemented, is static, and compatible with JavaScript / no-JavaScript.
Some dynamic status information such as logged in, not logged in, create account is not properly shown yet but will be soon in the JavaScript version. For the no-JavaScript version this isn’t possible as this would require not only CSS changes which are comparatively “easy” but a whole new mediawiki skin and PHP which would be a lot more difficult (speak: more expensive). The “basic” functionality (read, edit with or without account, tools) however should be fully functional for both versions (JavaScript and no-JavaScript). Some “advanced convenience” functionality might not be doable at this time.
Due to issues with MediaWiki skin foreground (Broken with mw 1.37), we’re back to MediaWiki default skin Vector and CSS enhancements are being added on top of it.
All enhancements to MediaWiki in the Whonix wiki are being documented here:
Some old chat comments of mine are cited at Metadata - Whonix and Metadata - Whonix . At the time of the chat, I said I would try to dig up sources for the claims I made. I’ve finally done so (took some hours; search engines are truly dreadful at reconstructing my browsing history from when I read these docs at the time):
Sources for claims on WikiLeaks DNC FAT32 metadata: