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.

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 &lt;jelder(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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.) Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> <1024px-Wikipedia_Blackout_Screen.jpg> _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media

Jeff- You can share both this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Wikipedia_Blackout_…

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_blackout_in_… As I shot them both. The top one was a media of the day. The bottom one was just hours before launch.

The photo has a real "war room" feel about it that works really well. Disclaimer: I was (and still am, really) opposed to blacking out the site for political reasons. But I do think it's a major event in our history that we could reshare. On 18 January 2016 at 10:47, James Alexander &lt;jalexander(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | +44 (0) 7722 916 433