{"id":283,"date":"2012-01-18T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/?p=283"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:48:01","slug":"how-to-bypass-the-wikipedia-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/how-to-bypass-the-wikipedia-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"How to bypass the Wikipedia Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to bypass the Wikipedia blackout<\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Here is a very simple way that will allow you to bypass the Wikipedia blackout<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you may well have experienced today, Wikipedia has blacked out its English language content in protest of a proposed change in US online copyright laws (see below for Wikipedia&#8217;s statement.)<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a very simple way that will allow you to bypass the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simply \u00a0add <strong>\u00a0?banner=none<\/strong> to the address in the address bar:<\/p>\n<p>e.g.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>shows the blacked out page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/how-to-bypass-the-wikipedia-blackout\/wikipedia-blackout\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285 alignnone\" title=\"wikipedia blackout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg\" alt=\"wikipedia blackout\" width=\"400\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout.jpg 400w, https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-blackout-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So we simply type <strong>?banner=none<\/strong> in the address bar at the top and press enter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy<\/a>?banner=none<\/strong> \u00a0returns you to wikipedia&#8217;s normal page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/how-to-bypass-the-wikipedia-blackout\/wikipedia-piracy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 alignnone\" title=\"wikipedia piracy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-piracy.jpg\" alt=\"wikipedia piracy\" width=\"400\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-piracy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wikipedia-piracy-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to bypass the Wikipedia blackout Here is a very simple way that will allow you to bypass the Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}