--- The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I hope you do understand my basic point, that the "let's be silly on April Fool's Day by being serious" argument does have some weaknesses.
It depends on who the audience for the silliness is. If the audience for the silliness is the Wikipedia community, than you're right in his argument having weaknesses. If the audience for the silliness is the larger Internet community that might visit Wikipedia during the day, than planning things out makes a whole lot of sense.
As someone who has worked on many "April Fools" editions of newspapers, there is a lot of planning that goes into those.
To add my two cents into the mix, I think doing things like changing up the logo or even adding silly titles on things is great fun. However, I do think there needs to be care taken in any purely fake news that people may choose to publish. The line between parody and libel can be very thin.
Sue Anne [[user:Sreed1234]]