[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

[Ryan Kaldari]

On 5/28/13 9:38 AM, Stephen LaPorte wrote:
>
>     My questions are:
>
>     * Could we ask for blackout Wikipedia (not just zh.wp) ONLY for
>     Taiwan IP?
>     (Some users from China hope this blackout will not effect them)
>

 From a technical perspective, yes. This could be implemented as a 
geotargeted CentralNotice banner limited to Taiwan. In theory all 
Wikimedia projects could be blacked out in Taiwan only.

>     * If we could implement such blackout, how soon it can be done?
>

If you have people who are willing to code the blackout banner in 
CentralNotice, it could be implemented immediately. If you need 
technical support on this or want to actually lock zh.wiki to be 
read-only during the blackout, that will require assistance from the WMF 
and thus some spin-up time. The en.wiki blackout was implemented as a 
CentralNotice banner, although we also locked the project to prevent 
people who had Javascript disabled from getting around the blackout 
(which may have been overkill in my opinion). If you want to study the 
en.wiki blackout banner, it can be seen here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/blackout

Ryan Kaldari
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