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From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2012/1/17
Subject: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go
dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
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Please also see the related blog post,
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-so…
The release is posted here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_…
*English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
*
San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an
unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the
English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed
legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If
passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring
about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United
States.
Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in
a public statement (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_c…
):
Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined
together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take
against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in
a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level
of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The
overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage
greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals
considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a "blackout" of the
English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites
opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
“Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition
to this destructive legislation," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
"This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we
regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even
a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free
speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening
precedent of Internet censorship for the world."
We urge Wikipedia readers to make your voices heard. If you live in the
United States, find your elected representative in Washington (
https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States,
contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar
branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the
internet to remain open and free.
*About the Wikimedia Foundation
*http://wikimediafoundation.org
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
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Available in 282 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 20 million
articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000
people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an
audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and
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Tel. +1 415 839 6885 x 6609
jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org
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在澳門的朋友們可以來聽聽, 關於維基百科跨語連結及中文維基的搜尋引擎能見度研究結果....
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*University of Macau*
*Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities*
*Department of English Lecture Series*
*Liao Han-Teng*
*Doctoral Candidate*
*Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford*
on
*Visualizing and understanding how online language areas are made and
interconnected*
Wednesday 25 April 2012
17.30
HG01
*All are Welcome*
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*Abstract*
Do you recognize language codes such as "en","zh" and "ar" or country codes
such as "cn", "hk", or "mo" when you use online services and applications?
These codes are not merely the technical standards on which the internet
can be truly international “to interchange data in a multiplicity of
languages”, but also the essential knowledge with which the “language
industry” serves consumers and citizens with a specific geographic and
linguistic profile. Since these codes are instrumental for online services
and interactions, researchers can study and visualize them. This talk
presents research outcome of visualizing and analyzing (1) Wikipedia’s
interlanguage links and (2) the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) across
Chinese-speaking regions as illustrative examples to see how “online
language areas” (or Net Sprachraum) are made and interconnected. It is
further argued that the concept of online language areas fills the gap, and
resolves some tensions, between the concept of “networked individualism”
and “nationalized cyberspace”, pointing to some recent Internet
development, including online Chinese-speaking and Arabic-speaking areas.
Thus, to understand how the Internet is truly interconnected, both within
and across, languages and regions, researchers need to understand how the
language and country codes are used to shape online language areas.
Liao is a doctoral candidate at Oxford Internet Institute, University of
Oxford. His research focuses on the role of keywords, hyperlinks, search
engines and user-generated encyclopedias in shaping the sense of “*fellow
users*<http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2012/02/29/needing-to-have-a-voice-lingu…>”
in digital the networking.
Liao worked as 2011 Yahoo! fellow at the *Institute for the Study of
Diplomacy* <http://isd.georgetown.edu/>at Georgetown University
(Washington, D.C.) where he organized *the Chinese Internet Research
Conference* <http://circ.asia/>2011 and as a doctoral fellow at the *Institute
of Sociology at Academia Sinica <http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/ios/index.php>
*(Taiwan). He holds a master’s degree in computer science, a master of
arts degree in journalism, along with degrees in electronic engineering,
foreign languages and literature.
