Yesterday Wikipedia announced it would be joining the protest against the American SOPA proposal by going dark and effectively disabling all English language content on Wednesday the 18th.

The protest originates from Reddit. Early last week the surfacing site blogged that they would be blacking out from 8am to 8pm on the 18th in a blog post that outlined how dangerous they believe the SOPA proposals to be.

Despite SOPA being paused yesterday as concerns grow among certain political circles – sites like Reddit plan to continue with the protest.

A number of social media sites have sprung up to coordinate the protest. One popular coordinator is SOPA Strike.com which maintains a list of protestors.

There are some big names on this list.

• - twitpic.com
• - failblog.org
• - Reddit.com
• - Mozilla.com
• - Wikipedia.org
• - WordPress.org
• - destructoid.com
• - boingboing.net
• - deviantart.com
• - 4chan.org

There is, however, a problem. This is a self-serve list. Many of the big names mentioned on SopaStrike.com have confirmed they will be protesting tomorrow but some have not.

Reading through the full list of blackout supporters reveals a number of big name sites that, according to SopaStrike, will be part of the blackout but are either unlikely to or would surely have said so by now if they intended to. These false alarms include:

• - tumblr.com
• - facebook.com
• - cia.gov
• - aol.com

Will your site be protesting tomorrow?

By Andrew Girdwood.