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Wikipedia blackout Wednesday 1-18-2012

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I'm reading the banner just above this edit window: "Please note: In less than 6 hours, the English Wikipedia will be blacked out globally to protest SOPA and PIPA."

You may be interested to also read this: "The mobile version of Wikipedia, which draws millions of page requests a day, will remain up and running, says Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia." http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/01/17/need-wikipedia-wednesday-heres-how-to-access-it/ . . . Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Philippe_%28WMF%29#Mobile_Wikipedia_and_Simple_Wikipedia --Guy Macon (talk) 00:21, 18 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]