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

Mon Apr 4 19:56:22 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
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>>Of all the ideas that I saw proposed, I think that the absolute best
>>compromise between those who love the holiday and those who are not
>>great fans of it would be to have the main page be 100% real and
>>accurate in every last respect, but *also* to have it be filled with
>>stories that people would naturally suspect to be hoaxes.
>>
>>[[Exploding whale]] is a nice example, as is [[Holy prepuce]] (which
>>was a real featured article already).
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>>
>Exactly! 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. 
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With nearly a year to build a list of candidate articles there should be 
a lot to choose from.

Ec