As much as I respect Wikipedia's one-day blackout in protest of Internet censorship legislation in the US, there is a simple workaround. When you search a Wiki page, you get the desired page for a split second before being redirected to the blackout page.

The workaround: hit re-load, and as fast as you can hit the stop-loading button (the x button). It will freeze on the desired page without going to the blackout page. Same thing works for the New York Times after you've exceed your maximum 20 page visits per month.

or you could just read it in german (if you can)

Or just press ESC while the page is loading.

or just refer to the no.2 hit on google for the subject matter you are searching

I'm sure Wikipedia figured that the folks who are already outraged at SOPA would also know how to get past the Black Page; the ones that don't know what SOPA is likely have 30 'helpful' toolbars installed in IE and need a wake up call .

another way is to simply use the mobile version of wikipedia which still works normally. This can be accessed from any computer to, you just ad an "m" after "en"

So rather than

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Local

you use

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Local

You can also look at the cached page.

It will soon be over, but quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ive/Learn_more
(you can also add to your hosts file)

Studying for exams in engineering really requires Wikipedia .

Its all over now, but I just simply used the Wikipanion app for iOS and Android. Never a bump...

quite frankly I'm surprised that's how Wikipedia 'blacked out'. I thought they'd take everything offline for a day and put up their banner.

so in essence, they really didn't blackout. they just redirected.

I simply used the German version for 1 day even if I didn't understand much