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
On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch 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
On 17/01/12 22:52, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch 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???
I have now done it by temporarily replacing index.php with the file found at
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php_blackout
This short file has an easy-to-modify text and sends a 503 response as suggested by Google. Feel free to use it. The result can be seen at:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
Markus
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:32 -0800, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 17/01/12 22:52, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch 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???
I have now done it by temporarily replacing index.php with the file found at
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php_blackout
This short file has an easy-to-modify text and sends a 503 response as suggested by Google. Feel free to use it. The result can be seen at:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
Markus
That's pretty unnecessary. Using the BeforeInitialize hook is good enough.
On 18/01/12 14:14, Daniel Friesen wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:32 -0800, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 17/01/12 22:52, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Krötzsch 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???
I have now done it by temporarily replacing index.php with the file found at
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php_blackout
This short file has an easy-to-modify text and sends a 503 response as suggested by Google. Feel free to use it. The result can be seen at:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
Markus
That's pretty unnecessary. Using the BeforeInitialize hook is good enough.
Thanks, that would also do the trick. I don't think it makes a big difference in practice to be honest (either you upload/rename a file, or you upload/edit a file; I found the former to be simpler). But the hook would be a much nicer solution if one wanted to add more features and make this into a kind of extension ... I leave this to others :-)
Markus
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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