As you may have noticed, the English-speaking Wikipedia is “blacking out” in protest at SOPA/PIPA. This is a very important thing: SOPA/PIPA are potentially extremely dangerous bits of legislation (if you’re looking for a short explanation of why, here’s a great video).
I’m going to assume that you’re aware of the issues and have already taken action appropriate to your place – if you’re in the US, you’ve written to your representatives; if you’re in the rest of the English-speaking world, you’ve donated to the EFF (this issue affects all of us), etc. But if you’re in need of Wikipedia, here’s the simplest way to view it, today:
Accessing Wikipedia during the blackout
- Go to the English-language Wikipedia as normal. You’ll see the “SOPA blackout” page after a second or so.
- Copy-paste the following code into the address bar of the browser:
javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.getElementById('content').style.display='block';document.getElementById('mw-sopaOverlay').style.display='none'%7D)()
That’s all. You don’t even have to turn off Javascript in your browser, as others are suggesting: just surf away.
And if you just came here for the shortcut without making yourself aware of the issues, shame on you.