Glauro:Wikipedia's strike wasn't done correctly though. I can still access and read any of its articles, I just stop the page from loading right before the strike screen pops up and that's it.

You're right. I've just tried it as well - you can happily access all the pages because the black screen only starts to load up after the Wikipedia article is already showing on the screen.

Chainy:you can happily access all the pages because the black screen only starts to load up after the Wikipedia article is already showing on the screen.

I am pretty sure this is intentional.

erinja:

Chainy:you can happily access all the pages because the black screen only starts to load up after the Wikipedia article is already showing on the screen.

I am pretty sure this is intentional.

Me too - after all, some months ago the Italian-language Wikipedia showed that it is possible to actually blackout the site.

erinja:

Chainy:you can happily access all the pages because the black screen only starts to load up after the Wikipedia article is already showing on the screen.

I am pretty sure this is intentional.

It was. They've written it in their explaination to the protest:

"English Wikipedia":Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?

The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia
Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make
English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency. The
English Wikipedia will be accessible on mobile devices and smart
phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by completely disabling
JavaScript in your browser ...

The funny thing is: Some sites that followed the protest where not accessible in any way (for example fsf.org).

All the time this was going on you could get the articles by using Google & accessing their cached copy of the page - there is usually a link to the right.

Very useful if any site is down, e.g Lernu: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=c...

I was surprised at the number of supposedly tech savvy correspondents writing yesterday that did not seem to know this.

The idea wasn't so much to prevent people from accessing as to make them aware of the issue, which is arguably the purpose to any protest. If you found yourself having to circumvent normal routine in order to view the page and know why you had to do so, then their protest was successful. Take Google's protest, changing their doodle. Enough people take notice of their doodles for that seemingly small change to have a large impact. And, this may be the anarcho-communist in me coming out, government officials seem to fear a population's awareness above and before anything else.