Michael Snow said:
If there is a slight increase, it might easily be explained based on the recent problems with [[User:Martin2000]] over the [[Bahá'u'lláh]] article, which has flooded the log with his sockpuppets (every Nitram00xx user is one of these). The incident there has nothing to do with April Fool's Day.
Indeed, I was the one of those who placed those very blocks. Martin2000's socks accounted for many blocks on April 1 and none of this is in any way attributable to April Foolery. Last time I looked, someone said he was up to Nitram0023--twenty-two sock puppets, starting with Nitram0002, an anagram of his original username.
I agree that there was more frivolity on Wikipedia for April 1, and some frivolity elsewhere may have spread here. But in terms of malicious vandalism, I don't think the evidence indicates that the problem was worse than any other day.
Thank you.
I have to admit, though, that I seldom enter Wikipedia by the main page, and when I do so I'm at work and I have images turned off. If Mr Autofellatio showed his estimable pecker there, I would not have noticed.