The Wiki shut down is in response to upcoming SOPA legilation, which can/will have a deliterious effect on 1/2 of the InterWeb.

It is only shut down in English. Wales alone hits it 25 million times per day.

Other BIG sites are promising to do the same, in protest, over the next couple of weeks.

You guys are in HUGE trouble. I own actual books!

Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.