No Wikipedia tomorrow!

pottssteve

In protest against new American copyright and anti-piracy legislation........

Redhog14

pottssteve wrote:

In protest against new American copyright and anti-piracy legislation........

I'd check your sources, is that from Wikipedia...

Eric Cartman

As long as Tumblr is still up ill be alright...can survive on rage toons and titties for a day

shockedsoshocked

How will I be able to do my Uni work now????

Redhog14

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

How will I be able to do my Uni work now????

You are at Uni and doing work... why not get an education instead?

Pross

Where will we go to get the facts on everything now? Will have to rely on my secondary source, the Mail Online!

rick_chasey

Hey, wikipedia gets a bad rep, but it's really f*cking quality.

RDW

shockedsoshocked

Redhog14 wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

How will I be able to do my Uni work now????

You are at Uni and doing work... why not get an education instead?

keyser__soze

The underlying data is still in the html that comes back from Wikipedia - there's just a full screen js banner over the top.
For those using Adblock |http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader* should work - does for me.

rick_chasey

If anyone wants to browse Wikipedia just turn off JavaScript - Firefox - Tools - Options - Uncheck enable JavaScript

Jez mon

Rick Chasey wrote:

Hey, wikipedia gets a bad rep, but it's really f*cking quality.

+1

Tbh I find those who criticise it are those who haven't really used it much. Of course, it's not an academic source in the same way that a peer reviewed paper is, but as far as a first call of port for research on absolutely anything, it's usually pretty reliable. Not to mention its size, which means it can feature lots of information on relatively obscure subjects, which would never fit into a typical encyclopaedia.

Probably one of the better things to come out of the internet, imho.

Cleat Eastwood

Fear not, as ever our great friend the internets has not let us down.

tx14

Jez mon wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Hey, wikipedia gets a bad rep, but it's really f*cking quality.

+1

Tbh I find those who criticise it are those who haven't really used it much. Of course, it's not an academic source in the same way that a peer reviewed paper is, but as far as a first call of port for research on absolutely anything, it's usually pretty reliable. Not to mention its size, which means it can feature lots of information on relatively obscure subjects, which would never fit into a typical encyclopaedia.

Probably one of the better things to come out of the internet, imho.

+1 at the very least it could point you a direction to more info.

rozzer32

You can just press ESC before the page loads and you can access the site like normal.

afx237vi

If you search the topic on Google, just click the cached version and that'll get you in.

Pross

Jez mon wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Hey, wikipedia gets a bad rep, but it's really f*cking quality.

+1

Tbh I find those who criticise it are those who haven't really used it much. Of course, it's not an academic source in the same way that a peer reviewed paper is, but as far as a first call of port for research on absolutely anything, it's usually pretty reliable. Not to mention its size, which means it can feature lots of information on relatively obscure subjects, which would never fit into a typical encyclopaedia.

Probably one of the better things to come out of the internet, imho.

Only loking with my criticism. I would say that the quality is variable but well written entries will have some good source information that you can research. You'll always get idiots who put deliberately incorrect information on there but it soon gets sorted out.

beverick

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

How will I be able to do my Uni work now????

F*** that, what will the government rely on for their info?

Bob