[WikiEN-l] Re: Foolish policy proposal

Sun Apr 3 06:21:24 UTC 2005

I am registered to several mailing lists which every day offer a sort of 
full panel main page of what their web site proposes. Usually, the mail 
proposes short paragraphs for each topic, with a link to the full size 
topic on the website. For example this one : http://www.journaldunet.com/

This year, what they did and which I found great is simply that the 
entire content of their main page was faked. From the big paragraph 
introducing a supposingly serious article, to the little ads in the left 
side corner. However, each link in the faked main page lead only to a 
unique real main page where all the articles where good.

I suppose all journalists worked together to set up the absolutely 
amazing collection of faked stuff, I hope they had great fun, and I 
promise that it was really delightful to read.

I think that having 2 main pages during a day, one being entirely faked 
and the other entirely real gives much opportunity to have a lot of fun. 
Add *one* unique fake article to the real page (such as the britannica) 
is another funny step, as most readers would think there is no joke 
aside from the fake main page.

PS :

I will go further. I just checked on their website if they still had a 
copy of the fake main page... and I discovered a sort of feedback 
page... and guys, the comment I sent them by mail is mentionned on this 
page !!

http://www.journaldunet.com/0504/050404poisson-avril.shtml

I wrote them "Mes préférés du JDN et de L'Internaute : le lundi de 
pentecôte en alternance en fonction du numéro de sécurité sociale, le 
site du Père-Noël comme exemple de site ultra rentable et les tickets 
d'avion en A3. Bravo pour toutes les idées dans tous les cas !"

I think the day *we* can both have fun AND receive feedback from our 
readers telling us how much they had fun themselves, the april fool day 
will be a success.

Anthere

Erik Moeller a écrit:
> As per my earlier post - maybe for next year:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rules_for_Fools
> 
> All best,
> 
> Erik