Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 17/01/2012 22:11: The Italian bill was not removed, the vote was just delayed. So, if any, I see a poor effect here after compromising our goals. What do you mean? There's no way to remove a proposed law, here. And it will surely not be approved, like tons of other proposed laws

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/1/17 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: Wikimedia Serbia also supports English Wikipedians [...] Wikimedia Italia too, see http://www.wikimedia.it Here's the text (in italian): --- Milano, 17 gennaio 2012 Domani, 18 gennaio 2012, l'edizione in lingua inglese di Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Bod Notbod
On Twitter: Wikipedia #WikipediaBlackout and Imagine A World Without Free Knowledge ...have all been trending for the late morning, early afternoon. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Bod Notbod
Oh, damn: regarding the below... I meant to say in the UK. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:58, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Twitter: Wikipedia #WikipediaBlackout and Imagine A World Without Free Knowledge ...have all been trending for the late morning, early afternoon.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Bod Notbod
AND, I also meant to say #FactsWithoutWikipedia is trending in the UK. This user is cataloguing Wikipedia-related tweets of people that seem to lack basic skills in reading/comprehension (not realising it's just for 24 hours for example)... many tweeting RIP Wikipedia!:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 January 2012 13:46, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, sorry, I've made rather a pig's ear of what was meant to be some light coverage of UK Twitter responses to the blackout. I shall post no more on the subject. Heck no, this is useful :-) - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18 Thread Orionist
Top trending topic on Twitter right now: #DayWithoutWikipedia https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23DayWithoutWikipedia Regards, -- Orionist On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2012 13:46, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, sorry,

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of this unprecedented action. For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian Community, for showing us with their own blackout what power

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Marco Chiesa
2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of this unprecedented action. For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian Community,

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Jay Walsh
*English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA * San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Milos Rancic
Wikimedia Serbia also supports English Wikipedians [1] (English grammar fixes are welcome :) ): Wikimedia Serbia wants to express solidarity with English Wikipedians in protest against the proposed laws -- SOPA and PIPA --, which undermine the freedom of information on Internet. Unlike the laws

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Samuel Klein
2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of this unprecedented action. For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread emijrp
The Italian bill was not removed, the vote was just delayed. So, if any, I see a poor effect here after compromising our goals. 2012/1/17 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com 2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Minh Huy (WMF)
Landing page SOPA on Vietnamese Wikipedia: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ph%E1%BA%A3n_%C4%91%E1%BB%91i_SOPA Based on Catalan Wikipedia. 2012/1/18, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Lee
The Learn More link at en.wp is blocked too. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Minh Huy (WMF) minhhuyw...@gmail.comwrote: Landing page SOPA on Vietnamese Wikipedia: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ph%E1%BA%A3n_%C4%91%E1%BB%91i_SOPA Based on Catalan Wikipedia. 2012/1/18, Nathan

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-16 Thread Jay Walsh
Please also see the related blog post, http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ The release is posted here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark *English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-16 Thread Jay Walsh
As far as we know, it's 0500 UTC On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of this unprecedented action. Quick clarification: What time, precisely, will this be occurring? The on-wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-16 Thread KIZU Naoko
Thanks, Jay and everyone both involved and concerned. I tried to give an input but page was too edited and thus cause edit conflict, and perhaps I'd not be alone :D I hope everyone who happened to miss the opportunity to submit their own voices to the wiki page, they however are pleased to the