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