Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Avoid Wikipedia Janurary 18th 2012 blackout

As you could possibly notice Wikipedia's home page (en.wikipedia.org) was not fully disabled and there's full English content blinking prior to the black banner covers it. As it turned out there's a JavaScript added to the page which blocks the landing page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader&banner=blackout&campaign=English+Wikipedia+Blackout&userlang=en&db=enwiki&sitename=Wikipedia&country=BY
- the ending can be a bit different depending on your country, language settings.

To turn off the banner you may use Ad blocker and add a special rule. I use AdBlock Plus with FF, the exception looks the following way:



URL to block: *meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader&banner=blackout&campaign=English+Wikipedia+Blackout*

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