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@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

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

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
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