[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

[Theo10011]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For those not following, Italian Wikipedia went into lockdown a while
> ago.
> > All content and pages direct to the notice.
> >
> > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011
> >
> > Regards
> > Theo
> >
> >
>
>
> Any news coverage?
>

Yes, from what I heard it is getting a lot of local coverage.

http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2011/10/04/news/wikipedia_in_bianco_contro_le_intercettazioni-22703312/?ref=HREC1-1

http://www.corriere.it/politica/11_ottobre_04/wikipedia-italia-bavaglio_b4a6c60a-eeb7-11e0-bc1a-2283ac81b740.shtml

Only a matter of time, till it gets international coverage.

Regards
Theo