Here's an excerpt of an e-mail I got from the FFII. I think all Wikipedias with languages spoken in Europe should take part in the online demo. This isn't NPOV, but software patents could have serious consequences for our project in the future, so I think we should take a firm stand here.
Kurt
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Dear FFII/Eurolinux supporter[1],
The European Parliament is voting on September 1st on a proposal which, while pretending to aim at restricting patentability, in reality ensures that algorithms and business methods like Amazon One Click Shopping indisputably become patentable inventions (and indisputably pass the bogus requirement of "technical contribution in the inventive step").
As past experience shows, it is possible for powerful lobbies to push incredibly bad directives through the European Parliament. But it is also possible to have them rejected. Everything depends on how well we use last week of August.
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Needed: Your Website Blocked Next Wednesday August 27th
If the JURI proposal passes, important websites will be forced off the Net in the near future. It would seem preferable to take them off the Net now, as a demonstration, for a few days. Or, in a more gentle manner, to hide the content behind a "Page Closed" screen of the following kind:
see
Online Demonstration Against Software Patents http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html
The www.ffii.org title page is already hidden in this way and will continue to stay hidden until after the vote.
You might consider hiding some or all pages at least on August 27th and persuading your friends, especially those who administer much-visited software download pages, to do likewise.