As you probably heard, Wikipedia is going dark today in protest of SOPA and PIPA, congress’ attempt to stop copyright violations on the Internet.
About that, uh, yeah. Riiiiight. Remember, in 2006 this guy was the head of the senate commerce committee, which regulates e-commerce.
Anyway, if you use Wikipedia all the time (as writers and editors, it’s an invaluable tool for us to get general overviews on a wide range of topics… so, pretty much the same as for everybody else) you still can, you just have to find another way to see the info you want. One simple way is to use Google’s cache. These steps are for the Chrome browser, but you can find the cached links in all browsers.
- Google the term/phrase you want plus Wikipedia.
- In the results, position your mouse pointer over the result linking to Wikipedia. This will cause a chevron (set of right-pointing arrows) to show up to the right of the link.
- Position your mouse pointer over the chevron. This will cause a preview of the page to be displayed to the right of the link.
- Click the “cached” link.
There are, of course, several other ways to do this, not least of which is “the Internet.” So, last but not least, it’s probably also useful to post this.
