Re: SOPA, Wikipedia, and dbpedia

On 17 Jan 2012, at 14:51, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:

> Wikipedia is not the only website that will shutdown and other websites that will blackout may have a visibility that is comparable to dbpedia (but I don't have the stats).
> It perfectly makes sense that dbpedia join the list of participants in the protest.
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> Should you be interested in knowing who's participating, visit this website:
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> http://sopastrike.com/

Thanks for the link Antoine. 

Mischa

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> There are big names on the list.
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> --AZ
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> Le 17/01/2012 14:53, Mischa Tuffield a écrit :
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>> On 17 Jan 2012, at 13:40, Karl Dubost wrote:
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>>> Le 17 janv. 2012 à 07:37, thomas lörtsch a écrit :
>>>> But I would argue in favor of shutting down dbpedia alongside wikipedia. Of course it causes a little pain to researchers and administrators
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * The goal of shutting down?
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>> Personally, I think it would be a show of support for English Wikipedia's blackout tomorrow, and that it all. Given that dbpedia exists because of wikipedia, I think it would be nice to show and honour the wikipedians' desire to blackout in protest.
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>>> * The message left in place of shutting down?
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>> Something similar to above, with a link to the wikimediafoundation article
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>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark
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>>> * reaching the right community that would need to be educated about SOPA?
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>> A bunch of grad students, researcher, and/or academics might notice, but agreed, it wont even have a fraction of the same impact as shutting down en.wikipedia...
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>> Mischa
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>>> Depending on the answers to these questions, you might or not shut down.
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>>> Developer Relations, Opera Software
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