Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:36 +0000 From: Gordon
Joly
<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] SOPA blackout:
technical advice on how to join? To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 17/01/2012 15:05, Markus Kr?tzsch
wrote:
> but I wondered if there is a more
wiki-specific message to use that
> anybody might have prepared.
>
> Also, as was noted at wikitech-l:
>
> > It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP
> > code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine.
>
Maybe just a redirect to
en.wikipedia.org in the server conf or .htaccess???
Gordo
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