English-language Wikipedia will black out for 24 hours!

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.

Read the full details: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout