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Userscript that removes the SOPA overlay on English Wikipedia
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wikipedia-remove-sopa-warning.user.js
// ==UserScript==
// @name Disable the SOPA overlay on English Wikipedia
// @author Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
// @match http://en.wikipedia.org/*
// ==/UserScript==
// http://mths.be/unsafewindow
window.unsafeWindow || (
unsafeWindow = (function() {
var el = document.createElement('p');
el.setAttribute('onclick', 'return window;');
return el.onclick();
}())
);
unsafeWindow.jQuery('#siteNotice, #mw-sopaOverlay').remove().end().add('#content').show();
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Click the “raw” link to install it.

There are a few other ways to circumvent the blackout: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blackout/Technical_FAQ#Are_there_ways_to_circumvent_the_read_blackout.3F

Disclaimer: Wikipedia is taking part in The Great Interwebs Blackout of 2012. The point of this blackout is to inform people about SOPA/PIPA and to spread awareness about the protest against it. That’s wonderful!

However, if you already know about SOPA/PIPA, there should be no reason you can’t use the English Wikipedia today. Hence this userscript.

Please donate to Wikipedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org/

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