Wikipedia, an online free-content encyclopedia, the largest self-organised and self-sustained collaboration system on the Internet, announced that the site will go down on January 18th for 24 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, contemplated this idea earlier, but has had a final decision following the announcement that Reddit — the Web news and aggregation site — will black out its services in protest of online piracy bills on Janury 18th.

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