The SOPA blackout protest is now under way, but it seems that a lot of you would still like access to Wikipedia during this blackout period (maybe you’ve left your assignment until the last minute or something!). Is it possible?
Yes it is.
Here are a couple of ways you can access Wikipedia.
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Use the Google cache
Do your Wikipedia search through Google (for example, ‘Wikipedia SOPA‘). When the search results come up, find the link to the Wikipedia article then hover over it until a set of arrows pointing to the right appear and then click on the ‘cached’ link. This is fine for reading a single article, but if you want to click on links within Wikipedia it’s no use because you’ll hit the blackout wall each time.
- Disable JavaScript for the Wikipedia site in the Google Chrome browser:
- Click the Wrench icon
- Click Options
- Click Under the Hood
- Click Content Settings… under Privacy
- Click Manage Exceptions under JavaScript
- Type en.wikipedia.org in the Hostname Pattern box
- Select Block from the Behavior dropdown box
- Enjoy Wikipedia!
That’s two ways … there are more, but they’re what I’m using.
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- Google to protest SOPA, alongside Wikipedia, Reddit, others
- Wikipedia confirms site blackout to protest SOPA anti-piracy bill
- Unless Facebook, Google blackout, SOPA will succeed: Here’s what you can do
- Reddit will enact ‘nuclear option’ to protest SOPA, PIPA
- Reddit’s anti-SOPA “nuclear” protest is a good start
- SOPA: Why the ‘broken web’ should stay broken
- Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook consider ‘nuclear’ blackout
- Go Daddy really and truly opposes SOPA now
- Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook consider ‘nuclear’ blackout
- European Parliament ‘opposes’ SOPA copyright law in new resolution
- Twitter shutting down for SOPA? That’s just ‘foolish,’ CEO says
- How SOPA would affect you: FAQ
