I think this is an excellent idea.
One quick edit, it was just the “English-language Wikipedia” that did the blackout and not
“Wikipedias”. Other projects and languages posted banners, but only enWP went full black
out for 24 hours.
I think it would be great to get this tweeted from WP and retweeted from WM and
WM-PublicPolicy (although I’m not sure who controls that account).
-greg
On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:10 AM, Jeff Elder
<jelder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Monday marks four years (hard to believe) since the PIPA protests. Should we post the
attached photo with the straight-forward verbiage:
Facebook:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites joined other Internet sites in
protesting the PIPA and SOPA legislation by staging a "blackout" of service for
24 hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations>
Twitter:
On this day in 2012, English-language Wikipedia sites blacked out for 24 hours to protest
PIPA and SOPA legislation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Companies_and_organizations>
Welcome your thoughts. It seems to me its an important part of our history, but I
wasn't here. (At Storify we stayed up because many wanted our service to help
chronicle the protests.)
Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation
704-650-4130 <tel:704-650-4130>
@jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
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