[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day next year

Mon Apr 4 16:25:33 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer said:
>The trouble this time was that the FAs that a person may have
> mistaken for April Fools jokes were already featured on the Main Page
> by the time April 1 came around. Next time these should be kept in
> reserve and then the best of that crop could be the April 1 TFA. 'Did
> you know...' could also be subverted for a day from displaying
> interesting facts that are in new articles to very unusual facts from
> some of our more off the wall - but still correct and real - articles.

What you're saying seems to boil down to: "Next year, let's keep the less
interesting stuff off Wikipedia in the run up to April 1."  How will that
make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia?