Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Blackout on Italian Wikipedia in July 2018

Hi, on German, Czech and Slovak Wikipedia there is the blackout planned on 21st of March 2019 because of the EU Copyright Directive. The thing is that we prepared our own page on Slovak Wikipedia which we thought would be displayed during the blackout as the only page (similarly to your page in July 2018). But then users from Czech Wikipedia told us that we can only do the translation of template on Meta that is going to be shown on the day of the blackout. My question is how did you do the blackout on Italian Wikipedia in July 2018 from the technical side? Did you create your own page? Thanks for all the answers, --Luky001 (msg) 08:15, 20 mar 2019 (CET)

Hello [@ Luky001]! [@ Lišiak] I read your message on the other page and I'm going to reply here. This is the JS code used for the blackout in July, where allowedPages holds a list of pages which users should be able to see. The Wikipedia:Comunicato 3 luglio 2018/* pages contain translation of the landing page, which have a top bar for switching language. We originally redirected to the same page on meta, but that had the downside of attracting more vandalism there. We also used a CSS trick to discourage people who disabled JS to avoid the blackout, and the titleblacklist to block editing. Should you need further information, please ask! --Daimona Eaytoy (Scrivimi!) 09:10, 20 mar 2019 (CET)

Thanks [@ Daimona Eaytoy]! My current questions are: 1. How do you delete this code from MediaWiki after Blackout? Don't you need to have it somehow in that white list? I just want to make sure that we will not block Wikipedia with no way unblocking it back. 2. How did you change the logo to that black one? In normal settings for logo of the site? Or somehow differently? --Luky001 (msg) 11:51, 20 mar 2019 (CET)

[@ Luky001] The JS code above excludes sysops from the blackout (if ( mw.config.get( 'wgUserGroups' ).indexOf( 'sysop' ) === -1 ... ), so they will be able to use the wiki normally. Plus, the blackout is circumventable by disabling javascript, so no worry :-) This is the logo change, last 3 lines. --Daimona Eaytoy (Scrivimi!) 12:19, 20 mar 2019 (CET)

[@ Luky001, Lišiak] I would not recommend the method we used in July per phab:T199252. From what I can see, User:Seddon (WMF) is already working on a better solution which should not cause issues. That's the same way de.wiki is about to blackout. The best advice I can give you is to cooperate with Seddon on sk.wiki.--Sakretsu (炸裂) 20:22, 20 mar 2019 (CET)

[@ Sakretsu] Yes, we do (we are going to use the version of blackout page you linked). Thanks for your advice.--Lišiak (msg) 20:29, 20 mar 2019 (CET)