Of all the ways to protest the law, I think it.wp chose the most noticeable
way. If something like a sitenotice were implemented, many people would just
scroll past it. Even if not, they would only read it a couple times, because
people access Wikipedia for the content. OTOH, just locking
Editing privileges would only impact the people who are already aware of the
proposed law. The protest would have no impact on the readership.
Just my two cents
Matthew Bowker
http://enwp.org/User:Matthewrbowker
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On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:03, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The only thing we truly could do is restore read access. But if the
it.wikipedia community really wants to strike, there's very little we
can do to stop them. :)
I sure agree with that. There're plenty of ways to inflict pain without
terminating the service entirely.
Editor strike means not editing, it doesn't mean full service downtime.
Full-page banners or whatever else may work, of course.
When writers guild went on strike, we could still watch old stuff, right, it
wasn't pulled ;-)
If doctors go on strike, people are still allowed to live, retroactive
disease correction is not done...
How do we deal with an editor who starts deleting his contributions out of
spite?
Domas
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