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

[Excirial]

Just to add something to my previous mail - since the implementation is
currently an added div, it is fairly easy to override it. One (example)
method would be using the popular adblock addon for firefox in combination
with the element blocker. By blocking divs with the ID "mw-sopaOverlay" you
could effectively disable the banner altogether. To be honest i personally
don't mind that it is technically feasible since the alternative seems to
be (possibly) breaking the Google indexing on wiki pages, but i am a tad
worried how many ill-intended people will get trough, when the amount of
surveillance will also be lower then usual.

~Excirial.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Excirial
<mailfrontend.excirial at gmail.com>wrote:

> *@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 without 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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