Wikipedia talk:April Fools' Main Page/Archive 2008

message: Main page administrator coordinators: April Fool's Main Page 2008 project affects all five changeable sections on the main page.  To have an April Fool's content appear on the main page on April 1st, some of the department rules for these changeable main page sections may need to be bent.  Thus, the project may need the approval and agreed upon cooperation from the appropriate main page department.  Mostly, this may involve deciding which main page rules could be bent in their respective section and in fact bending those rules, reviewing proposed main page content to ensure it meets that sections main page requirements, and ensuring that this content made its way to the main page on April 1st.  The following is a list of administrators who have agreed to serve as AFMP 2008 main page department coordinators:
* Did you know (dept.) -
* In the news (dept.)/In the news - 
* Selected anniversaries (dept.)/On this day... - 
* Today's featured article (dept.) - 
* Picture of the day (dept.)/Today's featured picture - 
"We" is us: In this proposal "we" may refer to any group of Wikipedians interested in editing articles for April Fool's Day.  If you have more than a passing interest in this effort, please post your user id below (and if you participated in AFMP 2006 or AFMP 2007, please note that as well):
* The Placebo Effect AFMP 2007
* Royalbroil AFMP 2007 (recently became an admin and a frequent updater of DYK)
* Laleena  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 00:57, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinators and Members 

message: I want to point out that this image of a ridiculously complex coat-of-arms (which had been designed for the equally ridiculously-named Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, a 19th century British aristocrat and politician), is already a featured picture, as of this past week.  Spikebrennan 05:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be an awesome picture, maybe the article can be expanded a little bit before April 1st so it can be on the Main Page TWICE in one day. The Placebo Effect 05:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An insane coat of arms-- it's perfect! Royalbroil 05:29, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Perfect!Yzmo talk 21:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How do we reserve the FP for that day? Royalbroil 21:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've already left a notice at User talk:Howcheng#Grenville Diptych (Howcheng generally runs Today's Featured Picture).--Pharos 22:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about this? It's still a FPC nom but it looks like it's very likely to pass. --antilivedT | C | G 07:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I prefer this new second image. It's perfect for April Fool's Day, and it could be considered poor taste for other days. Royalbroil 11:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia's point is to tell the truth, not "make something up". Everything on the Main Page on April 1 will be truthful, just like any other day. --Jedravent (talk) 20:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

text: To put it another way, this is a double bluff.  People expect to be lied to on 1 April, so we will tell them unlikely truths in the hope that they will be too clever for their own good and disbelieve us. Certes (talk) 21:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today's Featured Picture 

message: What about tagging this as a page needing translation from English to English? We can edit Template:Notenglish for that. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 12:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: English to English?!

message: I'd like to see the Mediawiki:Tagline changed every year.   Some attempts were made in 2005, but were reverted on sight.  (Come to your own conclusions about the senses of humor of those involved.)
Anyway, my idea would be something along the lines of:
or something similar.  Any support/ideas? — Omegatron 14:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagline change 

message: Excellent, best April Fool's Main Page I've seen (well, last year was good too...). Very good job to all. :) · AndonicO Hail! 08:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well first, I would also like to congratulate everyone. But after that, I hope you don't mind reading my constructive criticism: Talk:Main Page#Bias? Nil Einne (talk) 10:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Good stuff, all. Ima Hogg (and the blurb in the box) is particularly impressive! Well done. I sort of wish we had wacky portal choices like last year, though. Of course this was my blog topic for today. :) ++Lar: t/c 11:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Agreed.  It must be hard to find these stories, but you keep coming up with them.  Good job. — Omegatron 16:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well done. 

message: Can someone do this? I would but I'm not totally sure how it was done last year (what to subst, etc)... Thanks. (if could be done in a way that you could walk through the DYK entry changes, even better...) ++Lar: t/c 15:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Archiving 2008