Are there any plans for per-country geolocated banners? (I realise we
have only 22 hours.) Things like saying Contact [name of ministry in
your country] rather than expecting people to look these up
themselves.
- d.
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them
(!) from bits.wm.o (our JS/CSS domain), which in the specific case of
the Italian blackout had the effect of not honoring the blackout at
all.
I'm
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them
(!) from bits.wm.o (our JS/CSS domain), which in the specific case of
the
On 16 January 2012 02:31, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of
CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is
that right?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote:
*cough*
USA can take over hostnames .com from other countries.
Then blackout the frontpage of these websites with this image:
http://rojadirecta.com/IPRC_Seized_2011_02_NY.gif
Is it possible to remove the banner at the
statement/explanation/discussion pages? E.g.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protest_gegen_SOPA looks odd with
two banners, considering both the same thing.
Bergi
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Bergi a.d.be...@web.de wrote:
Is it possible to remove the banner at the
statement/explanation/discussion pages? E.g.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protest_gegen_SOPA looks odd with
two banners, considering both the same thing.
Bergi
Well, my
On 16/01/12 06:49, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
On the issue of cookies, that is actually a tricky detail to implement.
Right now, if you have the cookie set to hide CentralNotice banners, it
will not show you the blackout (or any other banners). I was thinking we
could work around this by adding some
Good idea. I'll do both just to be safe.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/16/12 2:40 PM, Platonides wrote:
On 16/01/12 06:49, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
On the issue of cookies, that is actually a tricky detail to implement.
Right now, if you have the cookie set to hide CentralNotice banners, it
will not show you
So, is anything interesting going to happen when Google suddenly
realizes that all of our pages are nothing but a SOPA banner?
--
Dan
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Good idea. I'll do both just to be safe.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/16/12 2:40 PM,
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Dan Collins en.wp.s...@gmail.com wrote:
So, is anything interesting going to happen when Google suddenly
realizes that all of our pages are nothing but a SOPA banner?
When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them
(!) from bits.wm.o (our
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of
CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is
that right? Or will it be part of a separate extension?
What's currently
On 15/01/12 06:33, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action,
it seems inevitable that some kind of banner (or blackout banner, which is
apparently equivalent to an extra-large banner) will be implemented.
The question becomes: how will
Erik Moeller wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of
CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is
that right? Or will it be part of a separate extension?
I don't think Wikimedia ops can be complicit in turning off editing like
that. Ops operates under the exact opposite goal, doesn't it? To ensure that
the site is continually running, accessible, functioning as much as humanly
possible?
I was under the impression that any SOPA-related action
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 15/01/12 06:33, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action
,
it seems inevitable that some kind of banner (or blackout banner,
which is
apparently
On 16/01/12 13:00, MZMcBride wrote:
I don't think Wikimedia ops can be complicit in turning off editing like
that. Ops operates under the exact opposite goal, doesn't it? To ensure that
the site is continually running, accessible, functioning as much as humanly
possible?
Whatever their goals,
On 16/01/12 13:30, Krinkle wrote:
The default behavior taken with central notices is a close button
which will set a cookie. Once the cookie is set, the banner
is no longer shown.
The soft blackout option on WP:SOPA has only 74 support votes (30
oppose), compared to 519 support votes (77
As it looks like we will most likely be using CentralNotice for the
blackout (for a variety of reasons - easy scheduling, geotargeting,
caching, doesn't interfere with site indexing by Google, etc.), you will
likely be able to bypass the blackout simply by turning off Javascript.
There has
Hi.
Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action,
it seems inevitable that some kind of banner (or blackout banner, which is
apparently equivalent to an extra-large banner) will be implemented.
The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of
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