Richard Holton said:
On Apr 4, 2005 1:08 PM, Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer said:
Only one April Fools article is needed per year.
How, of all the scores of articles that are created every day on Wikipedia, do you legislate for there to be only *one* April Fools article on April 1?
If I understand things correctly, any "freelance" joke article in the main namespace would be treated as vandalism (or something) and be speedily deleted (or maybe moved to the user area, or something).
Sounds pretty much like what we had this year. I'm not even clear that there were *any* official joke articles this year, so I assume that they only thing that kept the joke articles up was a general disposition among certain editors to keep them there. Which is, I should think, all you'd need to keep an April Fool joke running for a few hours in the morning of April 1.