[WikiEN-l] Use "unusual articles" for April Fools day - the fool is they're all (allegedly) true

Thu Mar 31 09:31:46 UTC 2005

I don't agree with all the suggestions mentioned, but I'd be happy to
feature unusual and extremely odd facts from unusual articles for one
day under the heading "Things you wish you never knew".

(And yes, I know I'm not in charge of DYK)

-- GyverMagic

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:48:15 +0100, John Fader <jfader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Web April Fools are very rarely funny, and now everyone does them.
> With all respect to those who worked on ours, I'm not sure it is
> either (it seems more like an "in joke" for us).
> 
> If we post a fake story, we'll be just the same as Slashdot and the
> rest.  But we can do better.  We have a limitless supply of *real
> crap* to draw upon.  We can be lighthearted and play with the reader's
> credulity just as well by using stuff from [[Wikipedia:Unusual
> articles]].  I think all the featured articles in there have all been
> on the main page fairly recently, so instead I propose a special
> variant of Did You Know to take the place of the featured article on
> the main page.  For example:
> 
> ==Things you'll wish you never knew==
> ''From wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles|stupidest articles]]:''
> 
> * A 1919 '''[[Boston molasses disaster|molasses explosion]]''' killed 21 people.
> * [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]] pigs say '''''[[Oink|snork]]'''''
> and [[Korean language|Korean]] pigs say '''''[[Oink|kkool]]'''''. And
> we can prove it.
> * [[John F. Kennedy]] was almost certainly not a '''[[Ich bin ein
> Berliner|a jelly donut]]'''.
> * '''[[Belly button fluff]]''' is usually blue.  Check yours.
> * '''[[History of perpetual motion machines|Perpetual motion]]''' is
> impossible.  Probably.
> * [[El Salvador]] and [[Honduras]] fought a '''[[Football War|war]]'''
> over the result of a [[Football (soccer)|Football]] match.  Don't ask
> who won the war.
> * The happy [[Ewok]]s won't be happy '''[[Endorian Holocaust|for
> long]]'''. Serves 'em right.
> * '''[[Le Pétomane|French culture]]''' blows the competition away.
> 
> And use [[Image:Shark big.jpg]] as the image.
> 
> --
> John Fader
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