Wikipedia Blackout (& work around)

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 18 Jan 2012, at 09:59, Steve Meyers wrote:

> On 1/18/12 3:20 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
>> As it turns out they are using a simple javascript redirect to send
>> everyone to the blackout page.  No javascript, no blackout page.
>> Therefore either disable it using noscript, or simply turn off
>> javascript globally as per usual in your browser and wikipedia will
>> work again.
> 
> There are a couple other options.  You can just hit ESC before the 
> blackout loads.  Or put ?banner=none on the end of the URL.
> 

Nice.  Thanks for figuring this out before I needed to.  Long live the hacker geeks of the world!