On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Tomorrow will be anti-ACTA protest in Belgrade
and Wikimedia Serbia
[1], along with the guests of GLAM conference [2] from France, India,
Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic and Macedonia will be there.
There is also discussion on Serbian Village pump about blackout of
Serbian Wikipedia on one of the next days [3]. Up to the present,
there is 100% support for that.
Although I don't think that it would be necessary, there is the idea
to block access to English Wikipedia to users from Serbia if the
blackout of Serbian Wikipedia doesn't help. That means that we should
have support from WMF to do that.
P.S. Thanks to Adrienne Alix, who poked us to do that :)
[1]
https://www.facebook.com/events/234759129951687/
[2]
http://glam.wikimedia.rs/
[3]
http://tinyurl.com/85aj92d
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on 2/24/12 12:13 PM, Nathan at nawrich(a)gmail.com wrote:
It's really unfortunate that blacking out
Wikimedia projects is becoming an
accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose. When it
happened to the Italian Wikipedia, it was a first-ever event that no one
thought would happen again. When it happened to the English Wikipedia, it
was a uniquely forceful global statement that many argued might never
happen again for many reasons. Now Serbia, next who knows?
Nathan, what problems do you see with this method of protest?
Marc Riddell