Not sure if this is specifically an abuse filter problem, but only seems to happen with abuse filter. The links in the irc channel should go to normal site, not secure site.
As seen on irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikinews :
<rc-pmtpa> [[Special:Log/abusefilter]] modify * Bawolff * modified https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/10 (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history/10/diff/prev/27)
Expected instead something like:
<rc-pmtpa> [[Special:Log/abusefilter]] modify * Bawolff * modified http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/10 (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history/10/diff/prev/27)
regardless of if the filter was modified from normal or secure site.
Admittedly this is a very minor problem, and really I don't overly care if its fixed or not since it doesn't cause problems, but thought I should report it somewhere since its not the expected behaviour.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor