I just think it's quite unfortunate if Wikipedia takes itself so seriously that it fears to do what institutions like, say,
the BBC
are quite happy to do.
Again, I have not seen a single example of a respected encyclopedia doing this. Give me one example and I'll stop complaining. Wikipedia in particular needs to be sensitive to this type of thing due to our high profile and given the many misgivings about our reliability.
-- mav
Britannica is proud of its new articles but these are long overdue. The whole point of Wikipedia is listing stuff as it changes. Real life "book-encyclopedias" can't do April Fool's jokes because they don't update daily.