It's nice that someone in the movement still has a sense of humour. Did you see the English Wikipedia's TFA box?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/requests&oldid=651029553#April_1> "Support running as a straight ornithology article, with no attempt to be funny; Oppose any version played for laughs where the blurb is intentionally misleading. This make-the-blurb-misleading "tradition" is a legacy of Raul and should have been jettisoned a decade ago; it makes a mockery of genuinely important topics, it's incomprehensible to those in parts of the world which don't observe April Fools (that the stream of complaints it generate every year are always scrubbed from Talk:Main page and the complainants sneered at for not getting the joke, doesn't mean they're not genuine complaints), and it means anything that has genuine date significance for April 1 gets bumped to make way for cack-handed jokes. Yes, DYK and OTD still do this (although ITN doesn't), but "the standards of DYK" is not something that TFA should set as its ambition. – iridescent 21:36, 15 February 2015 (UTC) " -- Tim Starling On 02/04/15 07:48, Andrea Zanni wrote: > Well, I was really excited about the Sister project news... :-( > > (but I think it's a pretty neat joke) > > Aubrey > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (reminder: This is a prank, for "April Fools Day". Please feel free to >> ignore this issue entirely, or at any rate don't waste your time responding >> to this or getting upset/excited by it.) >> >> A. >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Wikipedia Signpost < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia >> and >>> its editor base >>> >>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/News_and_notes >>> >>> Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015 >>> >>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/Special_report >>> >>> Featured content: Stop Press. *Marie Celeste* Mystery Solved. Crew Found >>> Hiding In Wardrobe. >>> >>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/Featured_content >>> >>> >>> Single page view >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single >>> >>> PDF version >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01 >>> >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost >>> -- >>> Wikipedia Signpost Staff >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Asaf Bartov >> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> https://donate.wikimedia.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
