Wikipedia hmang tangkai thin ho tan….
To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:
It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web.
Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation.
The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns about similar legislation in other nations.
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
A va pawi ve. Ka hmang nasa teh asin, Wiki hi.
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
SHit! ava tha lo ve
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Wikiareyaar
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
chhei leh
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Google leh Wikipedia tel lova che hlei thei meuh lo an tam tawh a ni, tunlai khawvelah hian. mi(sual) ho zingah pawiti langsar tur fe fe ka hre teuh mai. Hahaha…blackout chhung chu thil inti hre taka mi hnial zuah zuah an tlem deuh dawn a ni hmel…US lam mite pawh an reh thiap mai thei a ni…hahahhaha
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January 17th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
A pawi ngawt ang te han ti ve ngawt ila. Kei tak hi chuan wikipedia/google te chuti tehchiam in ka hmang nasa lo. A thiam pawh ka thiamlo
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January 17th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
24 hours???? Kum khat ai chuan a rei lo e
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January 17th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Ka hre fuh em chu ka hre lo a
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January 17th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Keipawh ka chhawr lutuk vak lo bawk a, ni khat chauh chu pawi tham lovah ngai ang.
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January 17th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Nikhat lek te chu a rei lo em mai.
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January 18th, 2012 at 12:12 am
English wiki a inti deuh bik kher a, language dang in a thawk tho dawn tihna nge, news item khi k chhiar lo a.
Chutiang anih te chuan Urdu wikipedia kn chhiar daih nga ni mai lom.
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January 18th, 2012 at 12:27 am
Facebook ah Pu Van Neih Tluangan a post tukin khan ka chhiar a,a pawi ang reng. A chhawr pawl ka ni ve sin le
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January 18th, 2012 at 12:44 am
Portuguese leh Mandarin an paih dawn loh chuan a zia tho alawm.. bakah, darkar 24 chauh a ni lo’m ni?
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January 18th, 2012 at 2:51 am
Kei chu, research tihna lam atan èm hmang lo mah ila wiki hi chu hriatna pùr chåwk nan ka hmang tangkai khawp mai. A rawntlak bawk si. Mahse an khar zui rei lo turah ngai phawt ang.
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January 18th, 2012 at 3:47 am
Hemi ni hian inhnial a ngaihnawm viau ang
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January 18th, 2012 at 9:54 am
ehe he thil vang ve tho hi em ni tunah tak hian ka FB theilo
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January 18th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
an blackout ta tak tak a ka va ngei eee, an fiamthu amaw tih nak laia.
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