On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Varnum <greg.varnum@gmail.com> wrote:

I think this is an excellent idea.

One quick edit, it was just the “English-language Wikipedia” that did the blackout and not “Wikipedias”. Other projects and languages posted banners, but only enWP went full black out for 24 hours.

Italy did it first, sort of, not for SOPA. It's on the shirt!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA#Wikimedia_community

I think it would be great to get this tweeted from WP and retweeted from WM and WM-PublicPolicy (although I’m not sure who controls that account).

-greg

On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:10 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Monday marks four years (hard to believe) since the PIPA protests. Should we post the attached photo with the straight-forward verbiage:

Facebook:

On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites joined other Internet sites in protesting the PIPA and SOPA legislation by staging a "blackout" of service for 24 hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations

Twitter:

On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites blacked out for 24 hours to protest PIPA and SOPA legislation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations

Welcome your thoughts. It seems to me its an important part of our history, but I wasn't here. (At Storify we stayed up because many wanted our service to help chronicle the protests.)

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