I noticed this announcement at Wikipedia this morning:
Today, 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 PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
My Response: In order to help everyone I have made a backup copy of the EntirE Wikipedia database, so if you need an answer to a question, just send me your question and I will look it up and give you an answer. Just as there is no guarantee that anything in Wikipedia is correct, I would put VeRY little faith in the veRacity of the answer I will give you.
Update:
While saving an article for each letter of the alphabet, I saved "Igloo" for the letter "I". This of course caused me to write a dumb joke. So the dumb joke for today is a riddle:
What do you call a dirty bathroom of an eskimo?
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Answer: An icky igloo loo
Update: More Details ..... By saving all of wikipedia I mean that for every letter of the alphabet I have saved one article. So I have 26 complete articles, A to Z, saved on my computer. Then if you ask me a question about some subject matter that begins with the letter P, for example Pennsylvania, I will go to my "P" article (which isn't Pennsylvania) and see if I can find a suitable answer from my "P" article. I won't automatically tell you what my P article is, and you can try to guess if you want to. I picked a mixture of some very common things AND some not quite so common things for each of the 26 articles. So if you are interested in playing along just ask me a question in a comment, and I will try to respond. As always, try to keep things G rated! I will try to make my answers amusing.
Update: I just tried wikipedia and its turned off BUT only in the English language version.
BUT interestingly enough there is a language called Simple English that is NOT turned off!!!
So I will give you a link that goes to the English Language article in Wikipedia using Simple English.
THEN if you type a request in the entry box near the top right, it will search in the Simple English database.
Link to Simple English
Update: Time 15:47 - I just now noticed that I forgot to close the window down for my "K" word, so I might be the only person in the entire universe right now that can read about K@ngr**s on Wikipedia in the regular English language version! Oh, wait, here's another open window from Wikipedia as well, this one about physicist St%ph%n H@wk!ng.
I was going to ask you for the wiki page on the history of pancakes, but I bet you're flooded with requests for wiki pages about much more important stuff and don't have time for such triviality.
ReplyDeleteWhew. I was so worried about how I would function without Wikipedia for a day. You have such foresight and thoughtfulness.
ReplyDeleteJulie: I actually came very close to choosing Pancakes for my P article. I think it was because I wanted to make pancakes for supper 24 hours ago, but then got sidetracked and had something else later.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that if I get curious there is a Plan B.
ReplyDeleteOh, I found this too late! The SOPA blackout thing is over, and I could've really used your help yesterday. *sigh* I was forced to just make up random facts and quote wikepedia anyway, because what were people going to do: check?
ReplyDeletebest,
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MOV MOV MOV, we don't need to let a little thing like TIME interfere with our fun, you can still pretend like Wikipedia is down and ask me questions. Big Sigh, because,
ReplyDelete-gulp of sadness, manifested by three tears, one from left side two from the right-
no one else asked me a question (laying guilt trip on all my friends in the blog world)
during the Wikipedia blackout.