On 01/17/2012 07:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:36 +0000 From: Gordon Joly > <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] SOPA blackout: > technical advice on how to join? To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Kr?tzsch > wrote: >> > but I wondered if there is a more wiki-specific message to use that >> > anybody might have prepared. >> > >> > Also, as was noted at wikitech-l: >> > >> > > It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP >> > > code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine. >> > > Maybe just a redirect to en.wikipedia.org in the server conf or .htaccess??? > > Gordo
How the Wikimedia Foundation is doing it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blackout/Technical_FAQ An extension for your wiki to let you do the same: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blackout -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
