On Apr 5, 2005 3:50 PM, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Tony Sidaway (minorityreport@bluebottle.com) [050405 22:31]:
Daniel Mayer said:
I also recycled a proposal that 'Did you know...?' could be used to list odd and surprising facts for that day from our growing list of unusual articles.
As long as whatever you're doing doesn't kill the kind of spontaneity that had the toilet roll holder article on the main page, I don't mind. Everybody I showed it to loved it. Even people who wouldn't normally be interested in Wikipedia thought it was a really well written bit of nonsense.
Yes. All those who said this would lessen Wikipedia's reputation - is there any evidence of such, e.g. in press, blogs even?
- d.
Most references in a Google news search for Wikipedia are news outlets referencing Wikipedia for facts. That alone should be encouraging (even if personally I don't think much of a news outlet for relying solely on Wikipedia).
These are about the only 1 April refs I could find using Google news search. The latter two just report the takeover word for word. The first two links mention Wikipedia in the context of a roundup of April Fools gags:
http://www.bizreport.com/news/8809/
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/62025
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/01/1353234.shtml?tid=95
So, no-one major seems to have particularly made much of it at all.
Zoney