The SOPA/PIPA protest blackout is not appropriate for wikipedia, in my opinion. But they didn't even do it right. A blackout means the content is offline... But it doesn't take much time to figure out if you stop the page from loading before the redirect to the blackout page takes effect, you'll see the full article. If I knew how to manipulate my browser and block the redirect, wikipedia would work fine. They have restricted editing to two groups however...
From an edit page: "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Stewards, staff.
You can view and copy the source of this page:"
Them "blacking out" seems unprofessional to me, but, what's even more unprofessional, is that they failed to even do that correctly. Was this failure deliberate? Or did they not have enough time to reassign "en.wikipedia.org" to a different server?
Tell me, what do you think?
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