On 01/17/2012 07:18 PM, mediawiki-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:36 +0000 From: Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] SOPA blackout: technical advice on how to join? To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4F15FBB4.8060608@pobox.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Kr?tzsch wrote:
but I wondered if there is a more wiki-specific message to use that anybody might have prepared.
Also, as was noted at wikitech-l:
It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine.
Maybe just a redirect to en.wikipedia.org in the server conf or .htaccess???
Gordo
How the Wikimedia Foundation is doing it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blackout/Technical_FA...
An extension for your wiki to let you do the same: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blackout