On Wikipedia, one of the issues is that a lot of the behind-the-scenes JavaScript gadgets (for routine administration/maintenance tasks) are written by community members.
When HTTPS was first rolled out on Wikipedia (before that we had the joy that was a single secure server for all language sites - secure.wikimedia.org), a lot of these scripts wouldn't work because they hard-coded protocols and so on. Fixing all those edge cases was quite difficult. The scripts are often abandonware but essential for admins to do their jobs.
One of the downsides of community projects like Wikipedia...
When HTTPS was first rolled out on Wikipedia (before that we had the joy that was a single secure server for all language sites - secure.wikimedia.org), a lot of these scripts wouldn't work because they hard-coded protocols and so on. Fixing all those edge cases was quite difficult. The scripts are often abandonware but essential for admins to do their jobs.
One of the downsides of community projects like Wikipedia...