Or just press Esc very quickly so it stops loading the page before rendering the protest message overlay.

I somehow feel bad about being able to access it now :).

Tell people that this is what it will be like to access information online if anything like SOPA passes.

I wonder if a lot of people are going to be searching for "how to access wikipedia" now? Pity it will be too late by tomorrow, or you could inform them yet again. Oh well.

I think Wikipedia still gets to make its point if you have to pepper in some JavaScript or CSS to get back to it. Much more work than your standard interstitial.

This is the best point to make: the SOPA will only stop people who don't know how to get around it, just like the Wiki blackout. That is precisely to point to be made here.

I voted for the blackout, so I feel obliged to let myself be inconvenienced by it. 3 times already in the first 40 minutes.

Wikipedia loads jQuery, so doing this works: https://gist.github.com/1631148

Came up with almost exactly that

    javascript:$('#mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #content, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer').css('display','block'); $('#mw-sopaOverlay').css('display','none');

You beat me to it. :)

Since you're using jQuery, you might as well just use show() and hide() or remove().

or even better, use toggle():

    jQuery("#mw-sopaOverlay, .noprint, #footer, #content").toggle();

Also chaining: https://gist.github.com/1631368

I think that looks and scans worse. I didn't count characters, but it also seems like more characters. I bet it performs worse too (not that performance matters in this case).

And execute the first command just on $('div')

Truly concise and elegant. I'm not sure a code-golf could make that much shorter!

I think the easiest way is to add ?banner=none at the end of the page.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_black...

Came up with this when I got the blackout page:

javascript:$('*:hidden').show();$('#mw-sopaOverlay').hide();

this is too long, try this

var d=document;d.body.removeChild(d.getElementById('mw-sopaOverlay'));d.getElementById('content').setAttribute('style','display:block')

fits in a tweet

$('body > div').toggle();

or even shorter:

javascript:($('body').children().toggle())

Have fun!