Michael Snow said:
If there is a slight increase, it might easily be
explained based on the recent problems with [[User:Martin2000]] over
the
[[Bahá'u'lláh]] article, which has flooded the log with his sockpuppets
(every Nitram00xx user is one of these). The incident there has
nothing to do with April Fool's Day.
Indeed, I was the one of those who placed those very blocks. Martin2000's
socks accounted for many blocks on April 1 and none of this is in any way
attributable to April Foolery.
Last time I looked, someone said he was up to Nitram0023--twenty-two sock
puppets, starting with Nitram0002, an anagram of his original username.
I agree that there was more frivolity on Wikipedia for April 1, and
some frivolity elsewhere may have spread here. But in terms of
malicious vandalism, I don't think the evidence indicates that the
problem was worse than any other day.
Thank you.
I have to admit, though, that I seldom enter Wikipedia by the main page,
and when I do so I'm at work and I have images turned off. If Mr
Autofellatio showed his estimable pecker there, I would not have noticed.