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Posted 18 January 2012 - 05:35

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Open the wiki page today and you get a black page. The site (only the English version) is down for 24 hours to show it disagrees with some legislation making it's way through the US Congress.
They want you to air your views on social networking sites - which might also be affected by the same legislation I expect.

http://en.wikipedia....tive/Learn_more

Edit, noticed a spelling mistake

This post has been edited by Chinese Whisperer: 18 January 2012 - 06:29

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 05:49

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:21

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:29

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:37

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you can still get the pages cached though so it doesn't really make any difference.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:40

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lichtie23, on 18 January 2012 - 07:29, said:

It's working for me

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Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?
The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency. The English Wikipedia will be accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. Because the protest message is powered by JavaScript, it's also possible to view Wikipedia by completely disabling JavaScript in your browser.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:45

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 08:29

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KnightswoodBear, on 18 January 2012 - 07:21, said:

Some posters on here won't know what to do with themselves today

They will just have to be googletastic for a bit.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 08:36

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Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?
The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency.

Shite. My house is ablaze and I have no idea what to do.......if only I knew how to counteract fire..........

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 10:12

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 11:12

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KnightswoodBear, on 18 January 2012 - 07:21, said:

Some posters on here won't know what to do with themselves today

Personally, I'm going to have a couple of wanks and go back to sleep until this whole thing's over.

Turbo_dee, on 04 January 2012 - 09:39, said:

And that was not a good start, losing the Doctor at this stage of the game is pretty catastrophic, the Mafia will be creaming themselves after that kill. Particularly when the Doctor is as skilful a player as Forehead is.

gordon the gopher, on 13 February 2012 - 13:11, said:

Aye Forehead does have an anger problem I feel

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 13:40

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 13:51

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Savage Henry, on 18 January 2012 - 05:49, said:

Wikipedia has never been about free and open knowledge. Touch of hypocrisy there.

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 14:10

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You don't even have to disable Java. Just a quick hit of the Esc button when the page is loading does the trick.

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Posted 19 January 2012 - 03:16

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 01:33

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megaupload has been closed and arrests have been made.

i said to swampy a while ago on a thread about about streaming football that i think that in the future people will look back on the early days of the internet as a kind of wild west era. corporations with the help of the us government will take control.

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 10:52

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Savage Henry, on 18 January 2012 - 05:49, said:

Wikipedia has never been about free and open knowledge. Touch of hypocrisy there.

What's this about?

I [agree/disagree] with your assessment because you [praised/insulted] a [team/person] that I [support/loathe]. Furthermore, I [admire/ridicule] your writing based on the previous statement, and not on the merit of what was actually written.

[Insert final attempt to be witty here]

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 13:24

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T_S_A_R, on 20 January 2012 - 01:33, said:

I used to play Quake 2 with one of the founders of Megaupload. He was a proper weirdo then but a funny guy.

And yes, we are indeed looking at the end of a golden age. I don't think things will be quite as bad as you say... but definitely worse than they are now.

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 15:36

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