Yes, it's the only way that doesn't result in serious
technical repercussions.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Javier Bassi javierba...@gmail.comwrote:
A blackout with JavaScript? -_-
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On 18/01/2012 7:52 p.m., Stephen Bain wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Javier Bassijavierba...@gmail.com wrote:
A blackout with JavaScript? -_-
Yes. And don't tell anyone they can avoid the blackout by hitting ESC
pressing 'stop' in their browser before onLoad() triggers.
Can't edit
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that we have taken the necessary first step to regard the English
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as high-profile platforms for
political statements, we ought to consider what other critical humanitarian
problems we
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 January 2012 11:29, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
The one omission there other than the mailing list seems to have been
the Village Pumps; the first RFC was hosted on VP/Proposals, but
spamming
On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
A one-off black-out, yes. Repeated black-outs, no. I would hope most
Wikipedians would oppose anything like this happening again in the
near future, if only because this strategy becomes less effective the
more it is
Hi,
I've got a radio request for a New Brunswick Wikimedian to comment on
CBC Radio about SOPA... any takers? You do have to be from the
Canadian province.
Nick
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I wish you luck maintaining your sanity after using conservapedia then, and
hope you'll come back to reason after the blackout.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:37 PM, David Carson carson63...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I intend to get all of my information for the day from
Conservapedia. So by the
Wikipedia should do these complete edit locks more often, TBH. For the
sake of Wikipediholics like me, and so admins can catch up with
reports and backlogs in peace.
Not sure if it's a serious suggestion but it's just a thought I had.
On a related note, the Internet looks really dumb with
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Carcharoth
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 17 January 2012 11:29, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
The one omission there other than the mailing list seems to
Here's another big one: The message says There are better ways, like the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to find the right approach to legitimate
copyright enforcement without trampling on free expression.
However, the page links to an EFF summary which includes a mention of how
the DMCA has
On 18 January 2012 09:30, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Here's another big one: The message says There are better ways, like the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to find the right approach to legitimate
copyright enforcement without trampling on free expression.
However, the page
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:09 AM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
I started a thread along these lines a few hours ago on foundation-l.
I may cross-post there (foundation-l) gently chiding those who were
discussing the blackout there with no cross-posting or announcement
here
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jeraphine Gryphon jeraph...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia should do these complete edit locks more often, TBH. For the
sake of Wikipediholics like me, and so admins can catch up with
reports and backlogs in peace.
Point of order. This is not an edit-lock. You are
Starting a thread to collect some links to reactions against the SOPA
blackout of Wikipedia.
Here is one to start things off:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_MacDonald
And a link to that page as it currently stands:
I'd love to list my support on that page (after hitting the stop button
to keep the blackout from loading), but with the whole site under full
protection...
And to imagine people were worried about alienating people and perverting
our doctrines with Pending Changes!
Sent from my Droid2
Elias
Today's Now I Know by Dan Lewis discusses copyright and involves several
links to Wikipedia.
http://dlewis.net/nik-archives/no-copying-grandma/
Sent from my Droid2
Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P
אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי
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On Jan 18, 2012 5:58 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
Three BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout:
1) Wikipedia joins blackout protest at US anti-piracy moves
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
2) Wikipedia - what can it tell us about Sopa?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16609057
3) Without Wikipedia, where can you get your
On 17 January 2012 19:40, Tyler myusernameor...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish you luck maintaining your sanity after using conservapedia then, and
hope you'll come back to reason after the blackout.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:37 PM, David Carson carson63...@gmail.com
wrote:
Personally I intend
On 18 January 2012 13:05, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Three BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout:
1) Wikipedia joins blackout protest at US anti-piracy moves
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
2) Wikipedia - what can it tell us about Sopa?
Also this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/17/wikipedia-blackout
Carcharoth
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I hate to toot my own horn, but Wikinews has had some articles...
Wikipedia, Reddit in 'blackout' against SOPA, PROTECT IP laws
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikipedia,_Reddit_in_%27blackout%27_against_SOPA,_PROTECT_IP_laws?dpl_id=342230
Wikinews interviews Sue Gardner on Wikipedia blackout
Fox news:
Wikipedia to go dark, Google to join protest against anti-piracy bill
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/17/wikipedia-to-go-dark-for-24-hours-to-protest-anti-piracy-bill/#ixzz1jpcEMzqA
Wikipedia editors question site's planned blackout
Hi folks! Adding links to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blackout/Media
if you're able would be super helpful. Thanks :)
-- phoebe
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Javier Bassi javierba...@gmail.com wrote:
Fox news:
Wikipedia to go dark, Google to join protest against
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
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
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Ironically, Conservapedia seems to be in agreement with Wikipedia in
opposing SOPA/PIPA. Talk about strange bedfellows
Wikipedia Review has been down for more than 24 hours now.
This happens from time to time. Usually, somebody stumps up another few
months rental, and it's up again the following day.
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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 that
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
They might've been, though I doubt their members' files were. It was a
wonderful free host for practically any non-media file upload and public
file sharing (provided you didn't exceed their daily bandwidth limits);
guess all good things that are too good to be true eventually cease
being
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