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 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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