[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

[Excirial]

*@Domas, @Tim: As Wikimedia tech staff. Have you changed your mind? Are you
working to blackout English Wikipedia?*

See the Wikitech-l mailing list. The technical discussion seems to be over
there, at least in part. The matter seems to be more a "How can we get this
done properly wiithout breaking a load of other things before the appointed
date" then a "We don't want to do this". There is a prototype over here: (
https://test.wikipedia.org/?banner=SOPA_blackout_alt), for which i hasten
to add that it is only a technical prototype, with no final text, layout
and so on.

~Excirial

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/10/28 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
>
> > On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote:
> > > Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about
> > > closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when
> > politicians
> > > speak about closing sites.
> >
> > About 90% of everything that comes out of Domas's mouth is sarcasm. So
> > if you don't know whether he's being sarcastic about something, you
> > can assume that he is and get it right 90% of the time.
> >
> > Domas probably had the same reaction to the Italian Wikipedia protest
> > as I did. We both spend a lot of time making sure Wikipedia is always
> > up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small
> > proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for
> > everyone.
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
> >
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative#Comment_on_blackouts_and_technical_feasibilities
>
> "...it is very likely that we will not be able to make 100% sure that
> nobody can access Wikipedia..."
>
> @Domas, @Tim: As Wikimedia tech staff. Have you changed your mind? Are you
> working to blackout English Wikipedia?
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