MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote on 2005/03/31 11:37:
Wasn't it originally written for April Fools Day?
Why are you suddenly
objecting against it being used?
Written for April Fool's day? Why, no, not at all. It was written as a joke
between friends, for comedic bonding, it's basically a dialogue. That
doesn't show in the product, but then it wasn't written for a product but
for the writing process itself, the back-and-forth. Modestly, if we had
been going for an April 1 hoax page, I think we could have made a funnier
one. But the process has been hilarious, for my taste, and surely harmless
to wikipedia, or even beneficial. The contributors are all committed and
productive editors, and some of us were getting close to burning out on the
project. The joking-around cheered us up. The userspace isn't paper.
When there began to *be* a product there, an imperect one, I thought I
might nominate it on WP:FAC on April 1. That seemed quite daring--so
limited were my horizons! TBSDY preempted the plan by stumbling on the page
in February and FAC'ing it on the spot. Proposing it for the Main page for
April 1was first done by several people on that FAC vote, not by any of the
contributors. But we were quite happy to go along with the idea, and have
been promoting it some. I would love to see it used tomorrow, just *not*
for some alternative "Click here for how we might have April fool'd you"
Main page. That's what I'm objecting to.
Please don't, for that purpose, move it, copy it, link to it, or use it.
Bishonen