[WikiEN-l] Friday's featured article

Thu Mar 31 03:23:09 UTC 2005

Deathphoenix wrote:

> Or perhaps [[exploding whale]]. There are plenty of articles we could 
> use. The problem is, with an article like that posted on April Fool's, 
> we run the risk of people actually believing that the article is a 
> fake, when in fact, it's not.

Yeah, the "did you know" section taken entirely from 
[[Wikipedia:Unusual_articles]] is a good idea along these lines 
(exploding whale was already a featured article in November 7, 2004 so 
we'd want to pick a new one anyway). People believing they're fake could 
almost be a sort of meta-hoax, even. Wonder if we could add a poll for 
new readers at the end of each - "do you believe this article?" - to 
gage our street cred. :)