Bryan Derksen wrote:
Deathphoenix wrote:
Or perhaps [[exploding whale]]. There are plenty of articles we could use. The problem is, with an article like that posted on April Fool's, we run the risk of people actually believing that the article is a fake, when in fact, it's not.
Yeah, the "did you know" section taken entirely from [[Wikipedia:Unusual_articles]] is a good idea along these lines (exploding whale was already a featured article in November 7, 2004 so we'd want to pick a new one anyway). People believing they're fake could almost be a sort of meta-hoax, even. Wonder if we could add a poll for new readers at the end of each - "do you believe this article?" - to gage our street cred. :)
That's an excellent point! Wikipedia could play an April Fool's joke on the reader by presenting a particularly fine article from [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles]], in the fashion of [[exploding whale]], and having them believe the article is a joke. That should also satisfy other people who believe that Wikipedia should not post hoaxes on the main article space.
Cheers,
DPh