To be very clear: a decision on English Wikipedia to take action on this is not binding on Commons. ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to respond), go to http://courteous.ly/hpQmqy On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Svip <svi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 January 2012 12:20, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:58:41 +0000, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> > wrote: > > > >> I think the concern will be dependent on whether Commons is covered in > >> the blackout (and whether the 'full' shutdown goes ahead or the > >> 'pop-up plus banners' that seems to be getting most traction on > >> enwiki). > >> > >> I'm seeing a rough consensus for action on English Wikipedia, and > >> German Wikipedians seem to be up for acting in solidarity, but, as > >> I've said on the page on enwiki, I don't see how enwiki consensus for > >> a SOPA action ought to bind other proejcts including Commons and the > >> English sister projects. > >> > > > > Commons most likely will only run a banner. There is currently a straw > > poll abut it. The blackout has not even been seriously discussed. (And I > > personally think it will not be a good idea because many hotlinks to > > Commons files would just disappear without any explanation in case of the > > blackout - not something which add us much credibility). > > Is there talk about blackout on the files or just the pages? I don't > think a blackout on Commons would have the effect you described. > 'Hotlinked images' from Commons would continue to work as normal. > Including images in a blackout is usually a bit more work than usual > (Apache rewrite rules, etc.), while pages can simply be caught with a > quick and dirty MW-extension (or even just JavaScript). > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
