[Haskell-cafe] black Wikipedia (Was: PhD program at Portland State accepting applications)

[MigMit]

On 18 Jan 2012, at 21:37, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Nathan Collins wrote:
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>> - Portland is a very popular US city, known for beer, bikes, music,
>> and street food:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Oregon (wikipedia is blacked out today)
> 
> Maybe it is only a JavaScript trick. In Firefox (with JavaScript) I see the complete a page before it is overwritten by the protest page. In Konqueror of KDE 3 (with and without JavaScript) I can read the Wiki pages without problems. Edit however is really disabled. Sometimes I am glad to have the old technology available. :-)

Well, I must admit, they succeeded in making me install AdBlock - just to block this banner (it really is a JavaScript trick).