[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day next year

Tue Apr 5 16:44:36 UTC 2005

How about next year, we put an announcement on the main page stating
Wikipedia is now removing all potentially offensive images, and then
change the mediawiki code so that it will not render images! :)

On Apr 4, 2005 9:37 AM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Ok, I think next year we should not tolerate what went on this year.
> But we should try to do something fun.
> 
> Of all the ideas that I saw proposed, I think that the absolute best
> compromise between those who love the holiday and those who are not
> great fans of it would be to have the main page be 100% real and
> accurate in every last respect, but *also* to have it be filled with
> stories that people would naturally suspect to be hoaxes.
> 
> [[Exploding whale]] is a nice example, as is [[Holy prepuce]] (which
> was a real featured article already).
> 
> Here's what I like about this compromise: first, it satisfies those of
> us who understand that Wikipedia is first and foremost a serious
> encyclopedia.  Second, it satisfies those who want to have fun
> tricking people on April 1st.
> 
> And finally, and most important, it appeals to all of us on both sides
> of the debate who are intellectual snobs. :-) Any lame website can
> come up with fake stories *yawn* to trick people *yawn*.  Only we
> ubergeeks of Wikipedia can come up with *real* stories to trick
> people.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
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Michael Becker