Wikipedia will be closed for 24 hours on Wednesday!

January 17, 2012 by: Bon Talampas

Wikipedia will shut down its services on Wednesday and will stay down for 24 hours. The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales (Co-Founder of Wikipedia) used his Twitter account to spread the news, writing

In doing so, Wikipedia joins a long list of web companies such as Reddit and Mozilla that are taking similar measures against the proposed legislation.

comScore estimates the English Wikipedia’s web traffic at 25 million daily visitors worldwide.

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About Bon Talampas

Bon Talampas is a computer engineer and presently a member of a technical team which supports a leading health care company in the Middle East. Prior to his career abroad, he’s an IT Specialist and a university lecturer. Bon also holds an MBA. And aside from being a computer geek and a DOTA fanatic, he spends most of his idle hours in blogging and photography. Catch Bon thru bonistation.com and this site.