Editing Italian Wikipedia (section)

==Other shutdowns==
[[File:Wikipédia italien protestation.PNG|thumb|right|The main page on 18 January 2012. The body text reads, "The Italian Wikipedia welcomes and expresses its solidarity with the protests of its colleagues on the English Wikipedia against the Stop Online Piracy act and the PROTECT IP Act. These bills, if approved by the U.S. Congress, would limit the freedom of the web and the very survival of Wikipedia."]]
On 18 January 2012, the [[English Wikipedia]] was [[Protests against SOPA and PIPA|shut down for 24 hours]], following a decision by contributors to protest against two bills being examined by the [[Congress of the United States]]: the [[Stop Online Piracy Act]] and the [[Protect Intellectual Property Act]]. On that day, the Italian Wikipedia redirected users from its own main page to a black page with a message of support for the decision of the English encyclopedia. Users could then click to access the Italian encyclopedia's content normally.

On 10 July 2012, when the [[Russian Wikipedia]] was closed to protest [[State Duma]]’s debating of amendments to the law "On information" ([[Russian State Duma Bill 89417-6|Law Project No. 89417-6]]), the Italian Wikipedia displayed a site-wide banner supporting the protest.<ref>[https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&diff=next&oldid=50604322 MediaWiki:Sitenotice]"Wikipedia in lingua italiana approva ed esprime solidarietà verso la protesta dei colleghi dell'edizione in lingua russa contro una proposta di legge in discussione alla Duma di Stato. Tale proposta di legge, se approvata, permetterebbe al governo russo di creare una blacklist per impedire l'accesso a determinati siti internet, al pari del Great Firewall cinese."</ref>
{{blockquote|The Italian Wikipedia approves of, and is in solidarity with, the Russian Wikipedia's protest against the proposed law being debated in the Duma. This change in the law, if approved, would permit the Russian government to create a blacklist preventing access to specific websites, like the [[Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China|Great Chinese Firewall]].}}

In November 2012, messages appeared on the Italian Wikipedia protesting the [[Italian Senate]]'s [http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede_v3/Ddliter/testi/38848_testi.htm Bill #3491], [http://www.senato.it/japp/bgt/showdoc/frame.jsp?tipodoc=Emend&leg=16&id=681527&idoggetto=709641 3204], [http://www.senato.it/japp/bgt/showdoc/frame.jsp?tipodoc=Emend&leg=16&id=681524&idoggetto=709641 3.400] and especially [http://www.senato.it/japp/bgt/showdoc/frame.jsp?tipodoc=Emend&leg=16&id=681530&idoggetto=709641 3.207].<ref>[[:it:Wikipedia:Comunicato 24 ottobre 2012/en]]</ref>

[[File:Italian Wikipedia shut down.png|thumb|Screenshot of Italian Wikipedia on 3 July 2018]]
From 3 to 5 July 2018, to protest the [[Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market]], the Italian Wikipedia displayed a site-wide banner supporting the protest, and disabled all searches and contributions.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-07-03 |title=Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at EU copyright law |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44696302 |access-date=2022-10-27}}</ref>

[[File:Wikipedia_screenshot_25-03-2019.png|thumb|Message shown on Italian Wikipedia on 25 March 2019]]
From 25 March 2019 for the following 24 hours, Italian Wikipedia contents were not accessible, replaced by a message encouraging the readers to contact their European Parliament representatives to vote against Article 11 and Article 13 of the European Copyright Directive to be discussed on 26 May.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-25 |title=Comunicati stampa/Blocco Wikipedia – Wikimedia Italia |url=https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Blocco_Wikipedia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331134832/https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Blocco_Wikipedia |archive-date=2019-03-31 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=wiki.wikimedia.it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Porro |first=Gabriele |date=2019-03-25 |title=Wikipedia Italia oscurata contro la riforma europea del copyright |trans-title=Wikipedia Italy blacked out against the European copyright reform |url=https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2019/03/25/wikipedia-italia-oscurata-protesta-copyright/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326170327/https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2019/03/25/wikipedia-italia-oscurata-protesta-copyright/ |archive-date=2019-03-26 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Wired Italia |language=it-IT}}</ref>