Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Of all the ideas that I saw proposed, I think that the absolute best compromise between those who love the holiday and those who are not great fans of it would be to have the main page be 100% real and accurate in every last respect, but *also* to have it be filled with stories that people would naturally suspect to be hoaxes.
[[Exploding whale]] is a nice example, as is [[Holy prepuce]] (which was a real featured article already).
Exactly! The trouble this time was that the FAs that a person may have mistaken for April Fools jokes were already featured on the Main Page by the time April 1 came around. Next time these should be kept in reserve and then the best of that crop could be the April 1 TFA. 'Did you know...' could also be subverted for a day from displaying interesting facts that are in new articles to very unusual facts from some of our more off the wall - but still correct and real - articles.
With nearly a year to build a list of candidate articles there should be a lot to choose from.
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