Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-22 Thread James Lu
Someone should purchase the domain and redirect it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page just to spite them ;) James. On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49 -0500, Anthony wrote: Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)). Like I'm gonna go reconfiguring my own system

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49 -0500, Anthony wrote: Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)). Like I'm gonna go reconfiguring my own system just to get around the fact that those guys can't keep their act together

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 January 2012 13:12, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote: It appears that wikipediareview.org also belongs to them and has not yet expired, but unfortunately they have it set up to redirect to the nonfunctional .com domain.  (I personally would have done the redirection the opposite

[WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups of critics has had a possibly more permanent blackout of its own... the infamous BADSITE, Wikipedia Review, might be dead. Going to its site today yields a GoDaddy parking page saying that its

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago that Ripway's domain expired...I went through this week and {{dead}}'d all the ripway links on the English Wikipedia. Bob On 1/18/2012 6:48 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Phil Nash
This happens from time to time. Usually, somebody stumps up another few months rental, and it's up again the following day. - Original Message - From: Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:48 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] WR

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Phil Nash
- Original Message - From: Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust? I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Anthony
Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)). On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote: On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it seems like one of its most prominent groups

Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?

2012-01-18 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
. Bob On 1/18/2012 7:14 PM, Phil Nash wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust? I was equally surprised