[WikiEN-l] Re: Friday's featured article

Wed Mar 30 18:22:23 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
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>>April fools jokes are traditional.  
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>And what evidence do you have that respected encyclopedias have done this?
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How many "respected encyclopedias" are updated on a day-by-day basis 
like Wikipedia is, with a front page that shows current events within 
minutes of their happening and then the next day replaces them with 
something else newer? It's not like the Wikipedia 1.0 snapshot is going 
to be frozen and rushed to the printers that day, with this article 
forever fixed in stone on its pages - it's not even in the main article 
namespace. On April 2 the link will be gone and the article will once 
again retire to BJAODN, probably never to be used again in this manner 
(repeating a joke is rarely funny).