Extension now available to do this easily - and with three different skins.  
Localisation now supported as well:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blackout

Will remain updated for future related actions (should your wiki decide to 
participate in them).

-greg aka varnent


On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:

> Most of you by now will know about the SOPA protest of Wikimedia [1].
> My question is simple:
> 
> If I am running MediaWiki sites, and if I want to join that protest (to 
> raise awareness among my readers), what is the recommended *simple* 
> technical way of doing this? It would help if somebody who cared about 
> this could make a simple documentation on this (I guess one could simply 
> exchange index.php on typical small sites?). I am aware of
> 
> http://sopastrike.com/
> 
> 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.
> 
> How would one do this in the easiest way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Markus
> 
> [1] 
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
> 
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