Wikipedia below to protest Articles 13 and 11

If you try to access the Spanish or Italian versions of Wikipedia, you will not have much luck. The great encyclopedia protested against Articles 11 and 13 that the European Parliament will vote in plenary on Thursday 5 July. Instead of the usual message, you will see a statement from the Spanish and Italian communities

"On 5 July 2018, the plenary of the European Parliament will vote on the possibility of advancing a proposal for a directive on copyright. , if approved, would greatly damage the open Internet that we know today " reads in the shared note in Spanish and Italian Wikipedia.

For this reason, the Wikimedia Foundation is one of the subscribers of an open letter that meets more than 70 names, including the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and in which a position of opposition is taken to modifications of the rights that may be approved in the European Union. In this sense, "the Wikipedia community in Spanish has decided to darken all pages of the encyclopedia before and during the voting of the text, that is to say up to the end. at 10 am (UTC) of 5 July " reads

" We want to continue to offer open, free, collaborative and free work with verifiable content.We call on all members of the European Parliament to vote against the current text, to open the debate and to consider the many proposals of the Wikimedia movement to protect access to knowledge, among them the elimination of Articles 11 and 13, the extension of freedom of the panoply for the whole EU and the preservation of the public domain " completes the same message.

In other European countries where "they have adhered to this protest, it is possible that you will find a message regarding this reform." For example, access to the English version of Wikipedia at Portugal should meet you with this warning:

After the directive passed articles 11 and 13 The JURI commission, to which belong the MEPs Marinho and Pinto, will be the meeting plenary of the European Parliament on this subject in a long process that has yet to be finalized and will be concluded only in 2019. Articles 11 and 13, however, with the "support" of major media groups.