How to Bypass Wikipedia Blackout

Today is January 18th, and to fight the current proposed legislation PIPA and SOPA which would restrict online freedom of information by giving the government the ability to break portions of the internet under the guise of stopping piracy many large websites are blacking out their information. Wikipedia is among these and I fully support and encourage you to call your representatives or sign any of the petitions to fight this legislation including the one at https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/.

That being said, if you need to bypass the blackout for today to use wikipedia, it appears fairly easy to do so since it is only using Java to redirect. Here are directions for 3 browsers(Internet Explorers experience will be the cumbersome):

Chrome + NotScript

1.Chrome - Install an extension called Notscripts and block wikipedia from running as shown .
2. Firefox Install the Addon called NoScript and again block wikipedia from running
3. Internet Explorer - Go to Internet Options > Security > Internet Zone > Click Custom Level. Scroll down the list until you find Scripting > Active Scripting. Set this to prompt or Disable. Now when you go to the Wikipedia page don't let it run scripts.

Please note that allow scripts to run is required for many of the features on many pages to work as intended. So you may have to allow or block sites from running scripts as needed. The major benefit of this is it will prevent the majority of malware attacks on you because those bad things usually now require scripting to work correctly so this is more secure. As typical though if you are normal visiting known good sites there is that trade off of usability so you may want to use Chrome or firefox and just allow scripting on those known sites.

EDIT: Also found from Wikipedia itself the following bypass methods

Are there ways to circumvent the read blackout?

The community has asked us to preserve emergency access options. The following methods will remain available to access content:

• Disabling JavaScript in your browser
• Using bookmarklets or other tools to unhide the content
• Visiting the mobile site at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
• Accessing site content via the API
• Appending ?banner=none to the end of page URLs.

As noted above, the mobile site will be available, but will display a banner pointing people to ways to protest SOPA/PIPA.