Wikipedia Is Black

Wow. I really think that of the sites that have decided to go black, or even put banners up... this is the one that's likely to affect the most people who need to hear about this. Fingers crossed.

It's weird how it loads the page and then goes black.

I wonder if that's for SEO purposes, or if they've intentionally done that to get the emotional reaction it gives me... I feel like I dropped my ice cream cone every time I load a page and it goes black.

I have to admit that of all the ideas I had of how to black-out a big site like wikipedia a simple overlay never occurred to me, but its brilliant, not really disturbing SEO or any other service that is built on top of Wikipedia, congrats

Previous submission, with lots of discussion of the technical details:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477966

I'd much rather you plaster all your friends walls but anyhow here's a fix you just paste in the address bar whilst on a wikipedia page.

javascript:$('#mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #content, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer').show();$('#mw-sopaOverlay').hide()

Here are a few methods for unblocking the blackout taken from HN and my own method: https://gist.github.com/1631355

Didn't realize it because of NoScript. I'm actually a little bummed at how easy it is to work around.

A thousand school kids are now drowning in their own tears.

fix: https://gist.github.com/1631148