--- Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.
Good idea. It would prevent a great deal of nonsense and give people a break.
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Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.
Good idea. It would prevent a great deal of nonsense and give people a break.
We'll have to make sure to put the "joke" articles up just beforehand, then. :)
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.
Good idea. It would prevent a great deal of nonsense and give people a break.
We'll have to make sure to put the "joke" articles up just beforehand, then. :)
I still don't think that it'd be the best of ideas to shut down the entire Wiki - if you wanted to give everyone a break, then around the new year would be a better time. Perhaps stopping anon edits for the day and giving warning about no excessive April foolery.
That aside, I think that the featured article should be either a well written, convincing hoax or a well written fact pretending to be a hoax. The Monty Python eyes were good as well, but besides that, the excessive madness that was the mainpage just spoiled it a bit.