[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

[MZMcBride]

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