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"Wikipedia depends on its existence for a free and open, uncensored Internet."

Gah... that should be "Wikipedia depends, for its existence, on a free and open, uncensored Internet.", but of course editing that page is disabled! :)



The moral of the story: don't let engineers write copy, and don't make them write copy on a deadline while trying to fix bugs.

(I'm in the IRC channel where the SOPA blackout was planned and executed... the engineers are running on adrenaline, caffeine and sugar.)


Which IRC channel would that happen to be? I would love to see the logs of the last few days.


Ssh. Private. ;-)


Heck, I would pay money.


Yeah, I wanted to edit it too: in "the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia" it should be "black out". Curses!




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