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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

> It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is

> 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

> thought would happen again. When it happened to the English Wikipedia,

Nathan, what problems do you see with this method of protest? Marc Riddell

I agree with you, Yaroslav, that repeated and indiscriminate use of the method would dilute its impact; and could come back to bite the Project. But I think it unwise and unfair to put a flatly negative spin on the idea. Marc