On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Italy did it first, sort of, not for SOPA. It's on the shirt! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA#Wikimedia_community > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > 704-650-4130 > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > <1024px-Wikipedia_Blackout_Screen.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Heather Walls * Wikimedia Foundation annual.wikimedia.org <https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/>
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