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

Thu Apr 7 05:51:25 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
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>>Daniel Mayer said:
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>>>--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
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>>>>How, of all the scores of articles that are created every day on
>>>>Wikipedia, do you legislate for there to be only *one* April Fools
>>>>article on April 1?
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>>>There is only one TFA per day - hence *today's* featured article.
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>>Ah, my mistake.  I didn't know the proposal was only to limit the "Today's
>>Featured Article".
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>I also recycled a proposal that 'Did you know...?' could be used to list odd
>and surprising facts for that day from our growing list of unusual articles. 
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>-- mav
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This probably calls for more organised planning on a [[Wikipedia:Project 
April Fools 2006]] page, perhaps a month or so in advance. I don't see 
anything wrong with what I saw in one iteration of this year's April 
Fools main page, which was putting up an  FA article about an unusual 
subject that wasn't FA before, and putting links to articles such as 
[[exploding whale]] as "previous candidates" (well, that particular 
version had the toilet roll holder, but that can be replaced with a real 
FA). The April Fools FA should go through a normal FA process with the 
caveat that it be an FA article for April Fools.

The "Did you know...?" section is also an ideal place to list non-FA 
unusual articles.

Cheers,

DPh