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

[Marc Riddell]

> 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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> on 2/24/12 12:13 PM, Nathan at nawrich at gmail.com wrote:

> 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?

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

Marc Riddell