Wiki blackout.

[LordSplodge]

ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN !!
The world would be in mass riot if this was to happen
Plus see my post above

Obama signed the NDAA for crying out loud letting his own citizens be detained indefinitely without charge FFS. Do you think he can be trusted on SOPA/PIPA?

 

[BenjiSayers]

The Wiki app on my phone still appears to work so I'll just have to use that instead

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Not the point really.

If they turned it off for 2 weeks or a month, I'd actually give a ****.

 

[Cosimo]

The Wiki app on my phone still appears to work so I'll just have to use that instead

So is mine. It seems that they have left the back door open.

 

[yer_averagejoe]

The Wiki app on my phone still appears to work so I'll just have to use that instead

It is still available to mobile devices "in case of emergency".

You can also view it on your PC if you disable javascript in your web browser.

Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?
The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency. The English Wikipedia will be accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by completely disabling JavaScript in your browser

 

[Belmit]

Tapping Escape is enough to stop the overlay loading. Not the most effective blackout ever.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

What kind of emergency would require Wikipedia to be accessible?

 

[Castiel]

What kind of emergency would require Wikipedia to be accessible?

Proving a point on an internet forum of course........

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

I think they've proven the point that most people suspected. It's a cop out of a black out.

 

[TommyV]

Reddit is awesome, have stopped using it at work because some of the content is NSFW but they don't give any warning (the last and final thing I viewed in work on that site was a woman sky diving naked, all kinds of things were flapping about!! lol).

I don't care where internet humour is sourced from whether it be reddit created or from elsewhere, it's being able to find it relatively centrally which is the convenience I find with it.

Not signed up or anything, am just a lurker.


My google page looks the same, when will the change implement?

Oh and VM sucked balls last night, eating into my gaming time

 

[Dirk]

If you need Wikipedia today:

Create a bookmark, called something akin to "Show Wikipedia" and paste this as the address...

javascript:$("*").show(); $("#mw-sopaOverlay").hide();

Then, when you visit a wikipedia page simply click the bookmark.

Discovered by a Dev on XDA.

 

[Delvis]

It works fine, just put an m in between the en and wiki.

Like so: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken

 

[[TW]Fox]

Just hit escape before it loads the overlay.

 

[Skillmister]

My google page looks the same, when will the change implement?

It's on .com, and a pretty poor attempt tbh

 

[buchtis]

Wish YouTube and Google did this.

 

[Delvis]

Just hit escape before it loads the overlay.

Doesn't work for me, ie and FF

 

[Skillmister]

Doesn't work for me, ie and FF

Hit the stop button, that works

 

[GoatBotherer]

To view Wikipedia all you have to do is disable javascript.

 

[Random Guy]

If you want something from Wikipedia, just use the Google "Cache" option from the Search Results page...

 

[GravyMonster]

Works for me in FF. You have to be quick to catch it.