Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2007
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April fools 2007
- The Today's Featured Article on the Main Page (pictured) was George Washington (inventor), who was actually a real person. However, the fact that it was featured on the Main Page was obviously a spoof off of the famous George Washington, the President. In fact, the article was created, nominated for featured-article status, and put on the Main Page in a mere [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Washington_%28inventor%29&dir=prev&action=history 5 days].
- Special:Recentchanges was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Recentchangestext&diff=prev&oldid=119375004 briefly hacked] to display a message from Jimbo Wales saying that, because of vandalism, he would start charging editors to edit Wikipedia unless they were members of the cabal. A fake credit card registration page was also made as an extension of the joke.
:*It was also nominated for deletion.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimbo Wales
- A fake article about a truck driver named Bill Clinton
- Jimbo Wales' userpage was edited to display him as a Pirate. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=119396784]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:%21%40%24%25%26_for_Deletion&oldid=122266780 A parody of AfD] (the word "votes" is censored because AfD is not supposed to be a vote)
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VandalBot
- Mozilla Firefox was briefly hacked to make it appear as if it was about the biological species "Firefoctus mozillae" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mozilla_Firefox&oldid=119476079 permalink]). Later it was suggested to be merged with itself ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mozilla_Firefox&direction=next&oldid=119514711 permalink]).
- Wikipedia talk:April Fool's Main Page, but not implemented.
- Viridae [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Blockipsuccesstext&diff=prev&oldid=119413731 went into the MediaWiki namespace] and temporarily changed the Block IP Text to include links to Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man and Wikipedia: There is No Cabal, both of which are "official" Surpreme Cabal policy. It was then reverted 4 minutes later by Cyberjunkie. Viridae then [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php↦?title=MediaWiki:Blockipsuccesstext&diff=next&oldid=119464425 added the links back in 40 minutes later]. Cyberjunkie then deleted them again 1 minute later.
- :Category:Pages blessed by the input of Wikipedia user tjstrf, which was included in the signature of the user who created it. This prank actually led to a modification of WP:SIG forbidding the inclusion of categories in signatures.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Signatures&diff=prev&oldid=119530342]
- Template:Pwned
- Around 1048 UTC, the header for Special:Watchlist was replaced by a large image of Jimbo's eyes with the caption "Jimbo is always watching"
- From 02:49, March 26 (!) til 22:59, April 1 Wikipedia:Tip of the day was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day/April_1&oldid=117939336 'Ask Jimbo Wales'] (also here); making fun of users who spam Jimbo with stupid questions
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates saw the likes of Hughes Complex, Arnisee Lake, and Run away!!!.
- [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willys-Knight1920.jpg File:Willys-Knight1920.jpg] was nominated for featured picture status. Cue the Willy on Wheels jokes.
- MediaWiki:Sitenotice was changed by Alkivar. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&diff=prev&oldid=119453056]
- Dark Shikari changed Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion from a redirect to a new page, where users could vote on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion&oldid=119379826 deletion of votes]. This concept had previously been created as a non-April Fools vandalization by SPUI.
=Screenshots=
Image:Wikipedia Main Page April Fools' Day 2007.png|The Main Page
Image:Jimbo is always watching.png|Sitenotice [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&diff=prev&oldid=119454941]
Image:Apr07a.jpg|Deletion
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