After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS
This is ridiculous.  Wikipedia is headquartered in San Francisco.  If the NSA wanted to snoop Wikipedia lookups it would force Wikipedia to install PRISM-like access devices to the site itself, secretly.  Switching to HTTPS consumes more resources all around, increases latency, increases site operation costs, and emits more climate changing CO2, with no net change in the NSA's capabilities to snoop Wikipedia lookups.