Wikipedia blackout no more

Written by Matthew Lanham on January 18, 2012 — 4 Comments

We’re not supporting SOPA here, and agree with the blackout, but sometimes you just need to use Wikipedia, so we had a think about this, and within 5 minutes had the following solution:

  1. Visit a wikipedia page that has been blacked out! i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  2. Where the website address is shown in the address bar, replace it completely with the following:

The following is known to work in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and some other browsers, but not with FireFox!:

Note: When copy and pasting into the address bar, make sure it starts with javascript: otherwise it won’t work and will no doubt redirect you to a google search, if that’s the case, type javascript: into the address bar, paste and it should work.

As we’ve said above, we’re not trying to diminish the effect of this blackout, merely provide help for those students etc that really need the valuable information it holds.

About the author
Matthew Lanham is the founder of Swanify and has worked in the industry creating commercial websites for over 10 years. His experience, knowledge and understanding of what clients need has grown the business to its current position.

4 Comments on "Wikipedia blackout no more"

  1. Bob says: January 18, 2012 at 8:53 am · Reply

    Doesn’t work for me – on firefox or safari. Is that just for chrome?

    • Matthew Lanham says:(Author) January 18, 2012 at 8:54 am · Reply

      Try it again, we noticed that it strips out the first part which is necessary, easiest thing to do is type javascript: then hit paste…. enjoy!

  2. Adrian says: January 18, 2012 at 9:08 am · Reply

    Why not just search on google including “inurl:wikipedia” in the search then just view the google cached page? Presumably it’d work on all browsers.

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