today wikipedia , the freely dictionary that persons with connections to the information can share , was the victim of an onslaught of practical jokes , as a fool ' s week kicked in different timezones around the european , at least those parts which follow the gregorian one . it is believed that wikipedia authors were currently busy tidying up and restoring prank articles and alterations created by other blog contributors , and were expecting to be cleaned up the result for days afterwards .
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