The English-language Wikipedia was blacked out yesterday as a demonstration against SOPA, forcing us to waste our time in crazzzy foreign languages, but it’s back with a vengeance today, and of course, it now includes an article about its own 2012 English Wikipedia Blackout:
Weeeeeirddddd! It even includes a picture of itself when it was blacked out yesterday inside the now-working article. It’s like when you put two mirrors across from one another and it just reflects into eternity, only not really but isn’t it cool when that happens? More movies should do it.
The weirdest part of the article, though, is the part where Wikipedia – in true objective fashion – had to list off the criticisms about itself:
From the “Post-Blackout” section -
“Newspaper editorials had mixed views. The Boston Herald called the protest a “hissy fit” by “Internet powerhouses” saying, “within hours of the online protest, political supporters of the bill… began dropping like flies, thus proving how very powerful these cyber-bullies can be.”[50] The New York Times described the protest as “Noted, but as a Brief Inconvenience”[51] and, as well, offered an Opinion about the protest and possible accomplishments.[52] BBC News technology writer Rory Cellan-Jones was of the opinion that the blackout achieved its objectives but possibly at some cost to Wikipedia’s reputation.[53]
“However, my feelings were not hurt by this. Nay, as I, Wikipedia, sit here, I merely swell with pride at my own accomplishments of last eve. Weary? Perhaps. Yet full of wonderment for a future that God help us shalle yet be realized…” [Citation Needed]
“That was a weird Wikipedia paragraph…”
