2012/1/18 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharoth <[email protected]> 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 used. > > Yep. Personally, I'd like this to be really rare.
There's a number of reasons why it would be a terrible idea to start using Wikipedia as a political platform, but even ignoring them: don't imagine you'd get the same kind of attention for this kind of action for another ten years or so. English Wikipedia going black was world news, but one of the main reasons it was world news was that we'd *never* taken such a stance before. Next time the reaction would be something along the lines of "again?" rather than what we saw during the SOPA/PIPA blackout. And the users would soon stop caring about the message. //Johan Jönsson -- http://kontrast2012.se _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
