2012/1/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 18 January 2012 08:15, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)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 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
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