Someone will find anything done "not funny".
That said, body parts humor is rarely a soaring example of high humor.
If I didn't think it would go over so badly I'd do the sort of
efforts I used to do on Usenet here, but it seems to be taken badly no
matter what.
-george
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The April Fools DYKs are pretty tame compared to the
ones we used to get
from Bedford (which eventually led to a wheel war). I just wish the April
Fools ones were actually funny.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/15/13 11:23 PM, Risker wrote:
On 15 January 2013 21:09, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://thewikipedian.net/2013/01/15/wikifoolery/
" April Fools’ Day is still about 2 1/2 months off, but Wikipedians are
already planning for the big day. Every year, editors who maintain the front
page arrange for silly, sometimes misleading, and even mildly offensive
articles to run during the 24-hour period covering April 1st. But as we
noted in April 2011, not everyone is happy that such a serious project as
Wikipedia, one focused on curating the world’s knowledge, spends one day per
year kind of, sort of, doing the opposite. And as of today, there’s a thread
on Jimbo Wales’ Talk pagehosting a debate on the practice. This time in the
mix: whether the juvenile pranks contribute to Wikipedia’s noted gender
imbalance. Best comments so far: from female editors defending standing up
for “women’s ability to both use and appreciate dirty or giggle-inducing
language”."
I don't know that they contribute to the gender imbalance - although in
fairness the women who make it as far as adminship and discussions on
Jimbo's page tend to be unusually thick-skinned (I mean it as a
compliment!). I think that the puerile proposals being bandied about are
likely to make Wikipedia look like it's run by, well...juvenile geeks who
haven't got past giggling every time they hear someone say a "bad word".
It
would be different if these things were actually funny, but they aren't.
Although I think it probably says something about the general mentality of a
significant portion of our editorship what was being proposed for April
Fool's day - sex, body parts, and swearing. Hmmm.
Risker/Anne
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