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Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-then-where-will-we-look-up-sopa dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jimbo Wales has suggested that English Wikipedia restrict its services for a period to protest against the anti-piracy SOPA bill in the United States. This follows a similar action by the Italian Wikipedia last month." Reader fiannaFailMan points out another bit of Wikipedia news: they've taken the wraps off a prototype for a new visual editor. A sandbox is available to try out. The Wikimedia Foundation hopes easier, more intuitive editing will shore up waning contributor numbers.

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  1. Finally by Deathnerd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Big Jimbo speaks and it isn't about something that isn't feeding his wallet AND IT'S SOMETHING REASONABLE!

    I'll support this. This will provide so much more (negative) publicity to SOPA than anything any other group has done to date. GO JIMBO!

  2. Fully agree ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shut wikipedia down for 24 hours (yes, that long, it should really hurt) with some placeholder site saying that this is to protest against SOPA!

    1. Re:Fully agree ... by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What about a week but with a link to proceed to the content anyway?

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  3. Help us Wikipedia, you're our only hope. by definate · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Excellent! This would affect me heaps as I use wikipedia many times each day. Given it affects me, I know it would affect many others, and so hopefully it would raise the profile of what's happening.

    Hopefully other companies which are against it, such as Google, can do something similar.

    Either way, if they start doing stuff like this, that SOPA bill will get a lot more publicity about how bad it is, and it will be dead in the water.

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