Extension now available to do this easily - and with three different skins. Localisation now supported as well: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blackout
Will remain updated for future related actions (should your wiki decide to participate in them).
-greg aka varnent
On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
Most of you by now will know about the SOPA protest of Wikimedia [1]. My question is simple:
If I am running MediaWiki sites, and if I want to join that protest (to raise awareness among my readers), what is the recommended *simple* technical way of doing this? It would help if somebody who cared about this could make a simple documentation on this (I guess one could simply exchange index.php on typical small sites?). I am aware of
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.
How would one do this in the easiest way?
Thanks,
Markus
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
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