>>>... is working normally for me today. I thought I read somewhere the English-language Wikipedia was going dark worldwide today (Wednesday 18th)?
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>>>Maybe it's just the US (?)
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>>It is the same for Canada.
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>Not sure what you mean... is Wikipedia working at this moment for you?
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>It
is working properly for me right now.
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>UPDATE: I think I know what's happening. If I use IE, it's blocked. However, my default browser is Firefox with NoScript, which is blocking Javascript on Wikipedia.
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>If you block Javascript in your browser, Wikipedia will probably work properly.
The Wikipedia Q&A that appears instead of the main page mentioned you can disable JavaScript. By the way, if I do that, lots of other Web pages no longer work - it seems that many pages rely on JavaScript.
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