Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2006

As with past years, some BJAODN occurred on April Fools' Day 2006:

The resurrected tip of the day project, after a hiatus of over a year, was relaunched on this day with this announcement:

And of course, the fun didn't stop there...

• Requests for adminship/Mathbot Created by User:CanadianCaesar
• Requests for adminship/Vandal Created by Jaranda
• Requests for adminship/127.0.0.1
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/10th GNAA VfD ON WHEELS! created by User:Ashibaka
• User:Jaranda/Articles for deletion/Carthage created by User:Cato the elder
• User:Jaranda/Articles for deletion/Arab-Israeli conflict The debate itself was AFD'd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Articles for deletion/Arab-Israeli conflict
• The main page for 5 minutes
• The unprotection of the main page by Drini
• Wheelation process & Articles for wheelation by Luigi30
• User:Jimbo Wales, primarily by User:SonicAD, protected by Cyde. Was up for over 12 hours, and over 7 consecutively.
• Protect/Delete buttons swapped by User:BorgHunter.
• Wikipedia:Esperanza tagged as copyvio by Drini [1]
• [2]
• User:Gflores adding Willy on Wheels to Wikipedia:Good articles.
• User:Rickyrab, User:BorgHunter, and User:Deckiller toying with Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Can't sleep, clown will eat me 33 1/3 (see here)
• User:Deckiller finally revealing himself to be Willy on Wheels. He also adds the infamous userbox series to User:Willy on Wheels, and will most likely get blocked for it :)
• User:Sammy on Skids' reign of terror begins, with many vandal-related edits.
• Metric craptons of userboxes by User:Cyde. See WikiFools Generator. (This is what 1000 userboxes looks like)
• User:Deckiller creates a whole new vandal persona inspired by an old vandal. See User:Deckiller/long term abuse/Diddley vandal
• Wikipedia's first IRC chat by User:BillyH
• Leet by Treec, AKA Logan Kriete [3] (originally attributed to "anon editor", was Treec's/LoganK's IP address)
• Extreme overlinking [4]
• User:Lbmixpro blocked indefinitely per decision of WP vandals. [5]
• PROD Template - Counterstrike edition
• Wikipedia:Featured deletion discussions and Wikipedia:What is a featured deletion discussion by Daniel Case
• Wikidomination Document by User:Dr. B
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia, created by Sikon
• Intentional Prank Unit by Treec/Logan Kriete
• Buchanan-Hermit's lack of tolerance for "vandals" like himself.
• Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ceiling Cat - pic by User:Samguana, nom by Harro5
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
• User:TKE is shamelessly copying other editors by being blocked by the CVU, because he enjoys sarcasm and needs a day off.
• User:Macintosh User/User talk:You, by Macintosh User, placed in a link on BJAODN.
• Celestianpower added a new messages bar to Special:Recentchanges and it stayed there for 24 minutes.
• Many policy pages were officially approved by The Ministry of Silly Walks.
• The page Infinite Loop was changed to a redirect to Endless loop, Which in turn was a redirect to Infinite Loop!
• An announcement regarding payment for editors with over 1000 edits stayed on the Community Portal for bulletin board for over seven hours.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special:Random
• The beginning of Wikipedia:Requests for Seppuku (not strictly April Fools, as it was to have continued to exist past today, but it was deleted)
• MediaWiki:Watchlist being changed to stalked pages by Cyde Weys (and subsequent block until 2006-04-02)
• Articles for deletion/Main Page
• User:Georgewilliamherbert/Jimbo Whale Jimbo gets stalked, Fin at 11.
• Wikipedia:No Personal Attacks was approved by The Ministry of Silly Walks for almost 12 hours.
• Members of the #wikipedia IRC channel crapflooded GNAA chat with informative and erudite statements about Keynesian economics. Chat log at User:AKMask/log.
• Addition of Jimbo Wales to Nomination of new users in need of help
• User:Fuhghettaboutit asks a really silly question at the science reference desk and is taken quite seriously.

Screenshots

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  "delete" tab turned into "baleeted"

See also

• User:KaisaL/April Fool's Day, 2005
• Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense