Wikipedia to shut for 24 hours to stop anti-piracy act
Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet.
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has defended the decision to blackout the website tomorrow despite criticism from Twitter's chief executive who said shutting down website globally is 'foolish'.
The English version the website will be inaccessible from 5AM GMT on Wednesday until 5AM GMT on Thursday, he wrote on Twitter.
Blacked Out alert on wikipedia
The decision to black out the site was decided by voting within the Wikipedia community of writers and editors who manage the free service, Wales said. The English language Wikipedia receives more than 25 million average daily visitors from around the world, according to comScore data.
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