Last week, we noted that Jimmy Wales was in favor of a blacking out Wikipedia on Wednesday in protest of PIPA, joining with Reddit and lots of other sites, but that the community need to weigh in quickly. It appears they've now done so, as Wales is telling students to do their homework early, because the site is a goner for Wednesday:
In fact, it appears they're going even further than Reddit, who is going down for 12 hours. All English-language pages on Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours -- starting at midnight DC time on Wednesday. For what it's worth, I've been told by multiple Congressional staffers that Wikipedia is a tool they all rely on pretty much every day -- so expect this to get some attention. The site will also be replaced with an action alert, asking people to call and write Congress -- and Jimmy says his goal is to "melt the phone lines." Considering how much usage Wikipedia gets, that's entirely possible.
This is a big move, and it's great to see Jimmy and the community willing to take a stand like this. Jimmy is also tweeting up a storm about why this is so important. He's also responding to false claims that the bills are "dead," by noting that SOPA (1) may rise again and (2) that PIPA is still alive and well.
Either way, come Wednesday, I'm curious if Congress is still going to be claiming that it's just a "small minority" of people who dislike these bills.
P Daley wrote:Ended up at a party last night with a bunch of people I don't know and blacked out,
Woke up this morning with an email about ordering a $70 pair of UFO pants.
wormcode wrote:Should be a good wake up call to the wiki generation as well. Too many people rely on it, and there's lots of BS on it too.
I find this hilarious, my English teacher always said never ever use Wikipedia, use anything but. So he was saying use a website that has little to no published sourcing, written by one opinionated person and not moderated, instead of a clearly sourced article written and edited by numerous people that is moderated of opinions and inaccuracies as well as possible - all with no advertising for free.
P Daley wrote:Ended up at a party last night with a bunch of people I don't know and blacked out,
Woke up this morning with an email about ordering a $70 pair of UFO pants.
Are they actually taking it offline for the day then, or doing what some other sites are doing and using a javascript blackout that will display a message about opa that goes away when you click anywhere. If they're fully going offline then massive respect.
wormcode wrote:Should be a good wake up call to the wiki generation as well. Too many people rely on it, and there's lots of BS on it too.
I find this hilarious, my English teacher always said never ever use Wikipedia, use anything but. So he was saying use a website that has little to no published sourcing, written by one opinionated person and not moderated, instead of a clearly sourced article written and edited by numerous people that is moderated of opinions and inaccuracies as well as possible - all with no advertising for free.
hmmm.....
Surely he just meant do proper research. Using one site/ book/source for something isn't research. He probably gets loads of papers copied right from wiki., that's normal these days Wiki's getting better, but there's still lots of opinions and unsourced claims, and also downright defacements. It should be another source, not THE source. It's never good when everyone gets the same info from the same place.[citation needed]
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Blenky119 wrote:Are they actually taking it offline for the day then, or doing what some other sites are doing and using a javascript blackout that will display a message about opa that goes away when you click anywhere. If they're fully going offline then massive respect.
SunkLo wrote:Too bad people are just gonna use the cached google pages.
Now if google where to shut down for 24 hours...
The internet would explode...
Always found her attractive, and wondered if I was the only one? She is fit, in a kind of goofy way imo.
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Sure_Fire wrote:By the way does anyone have the stems to make it bun dem? Missed the beatport comp and would very much like the ego booster of saying I remixed Skrillex.
SunkLo wrote:Too bad people are just gonna use the cached google pages.
Now if google where to shut down for 24 hours...
this is more like it, I for one don't care if Wikipedia goes down on Wednesday, I never use the site.
kruptah wrote:I play the technics.
My english teacher gave me a weird look when I mentioned that as the musical instrument I played. Like the wtf stare. I had to give her the 'wiki wiki' dj motion to confirm what i meant.
