Just in case you've been living under a rock, you should know that Wikipedia has decided to undergo a voluntary blackout. This is only for the English version of the site and is only for 24hrs. The purpose of the blackout is to protest SOPA, OPEN and the other fiascos currently circulating through our congress critters brains masquerading as legislation.
I totally support the black out and have in fact taken the time to write my representative(s) informing them that if they vote yes on this, I will be voting no on them come re-election time. Unfortunately I use wikipedia a lot more than I probably should. While I do use it primarily as a starting point for research on important topics; it also fills the role in my life that most folks would reserve for facebook. In otherwords, I use it to help accelerate the rotting of my brain by reading up on random topics etc. That makes the blackout a bit of a nuisance and so I discovered a workaround to the blackout. As it turns out they are using a simple javascript redirect to send everyone to the blackout page. No javascript, no blackout page. Therefore either disable it using noscript, or simply turn off javascript globally as per usual in your browser and wikipedia will work again. Hope that helps! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
