Jeff- You can share both this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Wikipedia_Blackout_SOPA_January_18,_2012.theora.ogv And https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_blackout_in_progress.jpg As I shot them both. The top one was a media of the day. The bottom one was just hours before launch. > On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:38 AM, Heather Walls <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> @wikipedia >>> The Wikimedia blog >>> <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 > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
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