[WikiEN-l] Re: April Fool's Day

Sat Apr 2 05:24:35 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> Rick a écrit:
>>
>>> OK, it's out of control now.  Changing all of the edit
>>> button titles and making people think they have new
>>> messages when they don't are just confusing people. And now people 
>>> are changing the counts of articles on
>>> minor language Wikipedias.  We're getting lots of
>>> people totally confused and thinking that we've been
>>> hacked, and I'm worried that we're not going to be
>>> able to put things back to the way they were.
>>
>>
>> One thing I am noticing is...
>>
>> This is the first year we see such an explosion of april fool jokes.
>> The article I saw this morning just a paragraph 
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense/Wikipedia:April_1%2C_2005/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia) 
>> has become a huge pile of .... euh, how to call this ?
>>
>> I think such days are precisely meant for people to relieve their 
>> daily stress; just as Cesar organised circus games to have people 
>> forget how tough their lives where. And I would dare to say : is the 
>> over reaction a sign that the current project has become too 
>> "restricting" in editors freedom that they feel they need to get so 
>> wild the one day this is permitted ?
>>
>>> Page move vandalism is vandalism, I don't care what
>>> you call it.
>>>
>>> And some "apparent" vandal changed the Main Page to
>>> say that Terri Schiavo died from autofellatio.  How do
>>> we tell them not to vandalize Wikipedia if everybody
>>> else is doing it, too?
>>
>>
>> ROFLLLLLL 
> 
> 
> What some people don't seem to realize is that making a fuss over 
> something like April Fools articles only encourages more of them.  
> Instead of a handful of subtle hoaxes that harmlessly fool the brightest 
> among us we end up with a stream of endless silliness and 
> auto-felching.  Humour is in a sad shape when people have to be told 
> that what they just heard is an obvious joke.
> 
> Of course there are facts that are stranger than humour.  Alarmed by the 
> length of the list of people waiting for srgery, our provincial is 
> taking steps to reduce these lists by removing names that don't belong 
> there.  This includes women who have been waiting more than a year for a 
> Caesarean delivery.
> 
> E
> c

errrr, that is no joke...

:-)