Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2011/10/28 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread Excirial
*@Domas, @Tim: As Wikimedia tech staff. Have you changed your mind? Are you working to blackout English Wikipedia?* See the Wikitech-l mailing list. The technical discussion seems to be over there, at least in part. The matter seems to be more a How can we get this done properly wiithout breaking

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread Excirial
Just to add something to my previous mail - since the implementation is currently an added div, it is fairly easy to override it. One (example) method would be using the popular adblock addon for firefox in combination with the element blocker. By blocking divs with the ID mw-sopaOverlay you could

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread Dan Collins
Hey guys, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a while, so while we should continue to think about what we will do when the time comes to protest this, that time is

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 January 2012 19:27, Dan Collins en.wp.s...@gmail.com wrote: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a while, so while we should continue to think about what we

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread Mike Godwin
Dan Collins writes: Hey guys, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a while, so while we should continue to think about what we will do when the time comes to

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread cyrano
I agree. We should have the balls to do the blackout and attract attention from public and medias. People should read about the bill, think about the rights they would be surrendering if the bill passes. If (when) the bill appears again, people will be ready to have an informed opinion about it,

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: SOPA is not dead until it has a stake through its heart and its head stuffed in a pickle jar with a lemon in its mouth. Even then I'd keep a sledgehammer handy. I think there are pictures of that on Commons. Has anyone been reading the press coverage so far? Wikipedia is

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: ... Dan, you're misreading the implications of what the story you link to says. What's actually happening is that the House sponsors hope to defuse opposition by delaying and slightly modifying SOPA. My experience as a DC

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Have any museums, newspapers, or other cultural or political institutions joined this effort? Is there any concern about further damage to Wikipedia's reputation and credibility as an academic resource when it behaves in the

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread cyrano
Le 16/01/2012 23:43, Keegan Peterzell a écrit : On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Have any museums, newspapers, or other cultural or political institutions joined this effort? Is there any concern about further damage to Wikipedia's reputation and

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-04/tech/30586955_1_zynga-sopa-paypal 2011/12/12 emijrp emi...@gmail.com ANDDD HERE WE GO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi!

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-12-12 Thread emijrp
ANDDD HERE WE GO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-12-12 Thread Mateus Nobre
+ support! _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 From: emi...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:40:06 +0100 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org? On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:52 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Additional reasons to shut down English Wikipedia as protest ASAP http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-cuts-funding-for-unesco-after-palestinian

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-31 Thread emijrp
Additional reasons to shut down English Wikipedia as protest ASAP http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-cuts-funding-for-unesco-after-palestinian-vote-1.392996 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-31 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:52 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Additional reasons to shut down English Wikipedia as protest ASAP http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-cuts-funding-for-unesco-after-palestinian-vote-1.392996 This has little enough to do with Wiki(m/p)edia,

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:05 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 October 2011 13:48, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always up and

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-30 Thread Hubert
We have the ability to strike back with our means Lockout of all the IP addresses of companies, institutions, members of Congress. All to the Blacklist of our site. This includes all educational institutions and religious groups who profess not an implicit model of an open knowledge society.

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for everyone.

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 October 2011 13:48, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:05, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small proportion of a

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:43, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote: we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread emijrp
Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. Damn. 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi!

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas Maybe when Occupy Wall Street calls a

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Tim Starling
On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. About 90% of