Overcome the Wikipedia Blackout!

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Here are some alternatives for the Wikipedia lovers and a way to solve the black out!...

For those who don't know it, Wikipedia is Blacked out for a while..

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia

Wikipedia Blackout

Well, what it seems like, the Wikipedia is not really blacked out but it is just covered! And you can get access to it...
If you use the firefox firebug tool (inspect element functionality in chrome) and remove a few "display:none" attributes in the page html, the full wiki reveals!

Wikipedia Alternative

Or you can use any of these great sites suggested by Mashable!

1. Google Scholar
2. Wolfram|Alpha
3. HARO
4. Encyclopedia Britannica
5. Quora
6. Online Libraries, such as LexisNexis or EBSCO and others!
7. Project Gutenberg
8. IMDB
9. History.com
10. Encyclopedia.com
11. eHow
12. Google Translate

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