English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

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Advocacy - Index

Background

• Advocacy overview
• Public policy positions
• EU policy initiative
• Project-wide protests

Current Proposals

• European Commission copyright consultation

Wikimedia Foundation staff at the moment of the blackout

Database activity during the blackout.

On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia was blacked out in protest of SOPA and PIPA. This page serves an index to resources related to this protest on Meta-Wiki.

• Technical FAQ
• Reports about errors with "find your rep" lookup feature
• Media reports
• Actions by other communities
• Quotes
• Humor
• Post-mortem

See also

• w:en:English Wikipedia blackout
• w:en:Wikipedia:SOPA initiative
• Foundation Policy and Political Association Guideline, created in the aftermath of the blackout