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 5 days.
Special:Recentchanges was 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. [2]
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" (permalink). Later it was suggested to be merged with itself (permalink).
Wikipedia talk:April Fool's Main Page, but not implemented.
Viridae 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 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.[3]
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 '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!!!.
- File:Willys-Knight1920.jpg was nominated for featured picture status. Cue the Willy on Wheels jokes.
MediaWiki:Sitenotice was changed by Alkivar. [4]
Dark Shikari changed Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion from a redirect to a new page, where users could vote on the deletion of votes. This concept had previously been created as a non-April Fools vandalization by SPUI.

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The Main Page
Sitenotice [1]
Deletion