The SOPA Blackout may be spreading across the internet today, which includes Wikipedia. But as Giz comrade Mark Wilson points out, there’s one Wiki entry you can actually navigate to: the Stop Online Piracy Act page (DUH!).
But if you really need to get to the rest of Wikipedia, all hope is not lost, as each individual entry is still online, but is simply blocked by a splash page activated by JavaScript. So if you hit the stop button (or, as the NY Times points out, hitting the ESC key repeatedly) on your browser in between the original Wiki entry loading and the javascript kicking in, you can also just disable the the blackout page. Happy blackout day! [Mark Wilson]
josh
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7:57 AMi know its against the spirit of this but if you really need to access wikipedia you can press stop as soon as the page content has loaded and if you do it quick enough it will stop before it redirects to the black out page.
Dave
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 8:42 AMAlso against the spirit but you can easily disable Javascript in your browser for the day and wiki will work just fine. It’s gonna get the publicity it needs now to why not?
Dave
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM*so why not?
(Giz. We need an edit button!)
Jamie
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 9:25 AMAlso probably not in the spirit, but if you are a real geek and have Firebug you can delete the overlaying DIV and set display property on the content DIV back to block. Why do things the easy way?
Benny
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:03 AMI just cannot believe the amount of people who haven’t got a clue;
https://twitter.com/herpderpedia