[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA
MZMcBride
z at mzmcbride.com
Sat Jan 14 01:58:03 UTC 2012
Bastien Guerry wrote:
> A nice side-effect of such a black-out will be to send GLAM
> institutions this message: "Don't use Wikipedia as a storage
> service, use your own websites and free licenses instead."
I think this would make a much better CentralNotice banner...
Apparently there's now a vote at
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action>.
Not sure why there's a vote. Or why, if you're going to have a vote, you'd
use MediaWiki...
MZMcBride
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