On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
The question becomes: how will this be
implemented? I assume some kind of
CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is
that right? Or will it be part of a separate extension?
What's currently under primary consideration is a CN implementation
geo-located to US visitors. First early prototype here:
http://test.wikipedia.org/?banner=blackout
Messaging and design will still change, of course. We'll be doing a
dev/design/testing/QA sprint tomorrow starting at 1PM pacific time,
with remote participation on #wikimedia-sopa on
irc.freenode.net.
As for disabling, the community vote currently seems to lean against a
simple clickthrough, but we will likely preserve some emergency access
options, including user CSS/JSS based ones (although not necessarily
exactly the same ones as worked during the fundraiser).
I don't think Wikimedia ops can be complicit in turning off editing like
that. Ops operates under the exact opposite goal, doesn't it? To ensure that
the site is continually running, accessible, functioning as much as humanly
possible?
I was under the impression that any SOPA-related action was simply going to
be an extra-large and obnoxious banner with some kind of dismissability.
Removing the ability to edit seems to cross a much larger line. Ops is
supposed to and almost always has acted as a safeguard against insane
community ideas (where insane is equivalent to pushing aside core
principles). The ability for anyone to be able to edit is a core principle.
I'd be awfully cautious about simply throwing it aside intentionally.
Tim makes a good point about who the intended target is. I don't know if
that's been discussed on-wiki, but someone should probably check.
MZMcBride