[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day proposal

[The Cunctator]

On 3/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not any slur against you, but I consider this basically lame. Being
> > willing to post News of the Weird is not the same thing as Not Taking
> > Ourselves Too Seriously.
> >
> > Being willing to act like Uncyclopedia for 24 out of 8765 hours of the year is.
>
> Kind of have to agree there. If major newspapers allow themselves to
> print non-factual stories on that day, I think we can forgive
> ourselves as well. Can we fudge up a hoax, new information on the flat
> earth theory, etc etc?

Probably not: but what we can do is announce some spurious change to
Wikipedia policy or governance.

What would REALLY mess with people's heads would be announcing some
dramatic change in policy like the abolishment of Articles For
Deletion on April 1, and then sticking with it.