{"id":8369,"date":"2012-01-17T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2012-01-17T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:49:30","slug":"wheres-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8369","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Wikipedia??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the news that Wikipedia (in English) is staging a global blackout in protest of two bills before the U.S. Congress: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c112:H.R.3261:\" title=\"SOPA bill text\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Online Piracy Act<\/a> (SOPA), and <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c112:S.968:\" title=\"PIPA bill text\" target=\"_blank\">Protect IP Act<\/a> (PIPA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read a blog about this, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/16\/wikipedia-plans-to-go-dark-on-wednesday-to-protest-sopa\/\" title=\"blog entry from NYT on Wikipedia blackout\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia to go dark on Wednesday to protest bills on web piracy<\/a>,&#8221; on the New York Times web site, dated Jan. 16. You also can read Wikipedia&#8217;s announcement of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout\" title=\"Wikipedia announcement of blackout\" target=\"_blank\">English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout<\/a>&#8221; decision.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour blackout will start at 05:00 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iris.edu\/seismon\/html\/utc.html\" title=\"UTC conversion for local time\" target=\"_blank\">UTC<\/a> on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>If you need encyclopedic information on a topic during the blackout, Andersen Library has lots of encyclopedias (some are even online). <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\" title=\"Ask a Librarian email or chat\" target=\"_blank\">Ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the news that Wikipedia (in English) is staging a global blackout in protest of two bills before the U.S. Congress: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and Protect IP Act (PIPA) You can read a blog about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[17866,335,783,13966,17868,17867,257],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","tag-bills","tag-federal-government","tag-government-info","tag-legislation","tag-online-piracy","tag-us-congress","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}