Mark Pellegrini said:
there's a better way to have fun than vandalizing wikipedia, because
- don't kid yourself - that's exactly what was going on.
I dealt with several instances of vandalism that day, no more than usual, and according to my log only one of them could be attributed to April 1. That there was an explosion of vandalism on April 1, 2005 is a myth. There were some bits of localized insanity which were very much in keeping with the spirit of this centuries-old joke day. I categorically did not find any more vandalism than expected on a normal day. I cannot believe that I have to defend April 1 jokes on a system like Wikipedia--whatever happened to being bold?