[Foundation-l] Anti-ACTA protest tomorrow in Belgrade and blackout of Serbian Wikipedia

[Nathan]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at 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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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?