Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer said:
--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
How, of all the scores of articles that are created every day on Wikipedia, do you legislate for there to be only *one* April Fools article on April 1?
There is only one TFA per day - hence *today's* featured article.
Ah, my mistake. I didn't know the proposal was only to limit the "Today's Featured Article".
I also recycled a proposal that 'Did you know...?' could be used to list odd and surprising facts for that day from our growing list of unusual articles.
-- mav
This probably calls for more organised planning on a [[Wikipedia:Project April Fools 2006]] page, perhaps a month or so in advance. I don't see anything wrong with what I saw in one iteration of this year's April Fools main page, which was putting up an FA article about an unusual subject that wasn't FA before, and putting links to articles such as [[exploding whale]] as "previous candidates" (well, that particular version had the toilet roll holder, but that can be replaced with a real FA). The April Fools FA should go through a normal FA process with the caveat that it be an FA article for April Fools.
The "Did you know...?" section is also an ideal place to list non-FA unusual articles.
Cheers,
DPh