--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sounds like some kind of reverse April Fools. Something perfectly true that nobody in his right mind would believe. I like that idea.
I also very much like this idea. But finding such oddball topics to write about is hard enough. Finding enough to make them feature worthy is even harder. Then there is the time and effort it takes to put the article through FAC.
So having an alternate Main Page at [[Wikipedia:April 1, 2005]] seems to be a good thing to do as well. All the real hoaxes would go there and the stuff that just looks like a hoax but is real content goes on the real Main Page.
-- mav
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Well, let's get things going then. We need to get this thing up before midnight.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:06:36 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sounds like some kind of reverse April Fools. Something perfectly true that nobody in his right mind would believe. I like that idea.
I also very much like this idea. But finding such oddball topics to write about is hard enough. Finding enough to make them feature worthy is even harder. Then there is the time and effort it takes to put the article through FAC.
So having an alternate Main Page at [[Wikipedia:April 1, 2005]] seems to be a good thing to do as well. All the real hoaxes would go there and the stuff that just looks like a hoax but is real content goes on the real Main Page.
-- mav
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:21:43 +0200, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Well, let's get things going then. We need to get this thing up before midnight.
Having an alternate main page full of hoaxes, as many people have noted, is a poor joke at best. If we tried next year, we could produce an Onion-quality collection of silliness. But that's not a hoax; we could do that on any day at all.
Raul, you should have posted to this list about your decision about the FA tomorrow: that is, to ignore the recent poll...
The only reason I can see not to run the hoax article is that its writing and humor wasn't tight enough. But it has certainly made a lot of people I know laugh.
SJ