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January 17, 2012

21:57 • 1 year ago

Tags: sopa pipa altwiki wikipedia internet news journalism from inothernews 217 • Permalink

"The Washington Post is joining several other media organizations, including the Guardian and NPR, to encourage a one-day crowdsourcing solution for those left searching for answers: #altwiki. That’s basically it. Ask a question on Twitter with the hashtag #altwiki, and we’ll ask our readers to help provide an answer."

Genius idea. A great way for news organizations, who need to stay objective in this case, to get involved in the Great Blackout.

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Hahaha yeah noscript automatically disabled the script that blacks out wikipedia for me so when the blackout hit I was...
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Das ist wunderbar.
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that it’s really easy...still use wikipedia
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No, I’ve been ranting about...for about two days.
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Which is nice and all, kind of a throw-back to the days when one called a librarian with a research question, but...
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the only thing more hilariously ineffective than a sweeping blackout to protest a bill is a counter-protest in the form...
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FYI..
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