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David 'DJ' Hedley schrieb:
In a message dated 4/2/2005 10:10:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, erik_moeller@gmx.de writes:
As such, I propose two simple rules for next year:
- There will be one well-coordinated joke for the *outside* world,
Whether it's a featured article, a press release, or anything else can be decided by the cabal on the to-be-created fools-l@wikimedia.org mailing list ;-).
- Jokes *within* the community are limited to the Wikipedia:, User:
and *Talk: namespaces. MediaWiki:, Template:, Image: and articles are off limits. Jokes should not be overly disruptive.
I second this.
<aol>Me too</aol> We can use the existing mailing lists, though... :-)
I'm not sure about this. Setting hard rules for April Fool's Day isn't good.
The very concept of an April Fool's joke already sets some rules. By limiting its "form" on wikipedia, we can preserve order without restraining the nature of the joke itself.
Also, we would work on *one* joke together, instead of half a dozen or so competing ones. We're not writing multiple parallel versions of a single article, either. Wikipedia spirit, hooray! :-)
I found the toilet paper holder joke pretty good, and showed it to some colleagues at the lab, who also enjoyed it. I didn't watch closely what came after that, but from what I head, we could have done without that.
Magnus