HRWiki:April Fools' Jokes and Other Baleeted Nonsense
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===Users=== | ===Users=== | ||
| - | <!-- Notice: I am too tired at the moment to dig through Recentchanges and add what everyone | + | <!-- Notice: I am too tired at the moment to dig through Recentchanges and add what everyone did. I know it's against standard HRWiki policy, but if you did something on the Wiki this Aprilween, then please add it here. --> |
* [[User:Bluebry|Bluebry]] | * [[User:Bluebry|Bluebry]] | ||
| - | ** Had an "argument" with Has Matt? | + | ** Had an "argument" with Has Matt?, mainly about the [[Wikipedia:American Idol|American Idol]] contestant [[Wikipedia:Sanjaya Malakar|Sanjaya Malakar]]. |
**Changed his page and sig to display a sense of "newbishness" | **Changed his page and sig to display a sense of "newbishness" | ||
| + | *[[User:Venusy|Venusy]] | ||
| + | **User page converted to [[Wikipedia:ROT13|ROT13]]. | ||
| + | **Changed "favourite [[Strong Bad Email]]", "[[Games]] on H*R", and "[[Wikipedia:video game|video game]]s ever" to "[[tape-leg]]", "[[She Loves Me!]]", and "[[Wikipedia:Bubsy#Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet|Bubsy 3D]] and "[[Wikipedia:Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing|Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing]]" respectively, all widely considered the worst in their respective fields. | ||
| + | **1337-ized sig. | ||
| + | **Replaced talk page with automatically generated complaints, including one that erroneously claimed his title as Prof. Venusy (see [[Wikipedia:Essjay controversy|Essjay controversy]]). | ||
| + | **Replaced messages notice with a Blue Screen of Death and a link to http://www.maxforpresident.org . | ||
| + | **Translated navbar into hexadecimal. | ||
| + | **Wrote all edit summaries in reverse. | ||
===Main=== | ===Main=== | ||
| - | *[[Main Page]] changed to a message stating that "The Homestar Runner Wiki has been shut down." An "Info" link announced the [[HRWiki:2007 Spring | + | *[[Main Page]] changed to a message stating that "The Homestar Runner Wiki has been shut down." An "Info" link announced the [[HRWiki:2007 Spring Fundraising Drive|2007 Spring Fundraising Drive]]. |
*The [[Wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was replaced with one showing Homestar Runner related words (and the occasional "April Fools" message). It was also made to show up for all edits, instead of just for unregistered users and page moves. | *The [[Wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was replaced with one showing Homestar Runner related words (and the occasional "April Fools" message). It was also made to show up for all edits, instead of just for unregistered users and page moves. | ||
*About half way through the day <!-- ? -->, any attempt to edit your sig came up with the following message: | *About half way through the day <!-- ? -->, any attempt to edit your sig came up with the following message: | ||
Revision as of 21:05, 2 April 2007
On April Fool's Day, many changes were made to the Wiki. This page hopes to document the changes throughout the years. For 2006, there's the obvious WikkiTikkiTavi styling, and the redesigned Main Page. But what about the rest of the hi-larious pranks that happened? This page hopes to document them as well.
Contents |
April Fools 2006
Users
- Color Printer
- Flipped user page upside-down, similar to the prank at H*R.com.
- E.L. Cool
- Translated his entire userpage into Hebrew - Archived version
- FireBird
- Userpage became a page of a typical WikiNewb - [1]
- Has Matt?
- Sig reversed - [2]
- Later, sig changed to Bubsty's sig, prompting a humourous discussion on his talk page - [3]
- Sig reversed - [2]
- Heimstern Läufer
- It's dot com
- Userpage turned into one big Flagrant System Error that had no links at all and covered the entire screen - [6]
- Selected sigs permanently rendered as It's dot net - [7]
- Jay
- Changed his sig to use Seriously's colors, Tom's name, and a link to Thunderbird's page. The talk page link was visibly unaltered, but linked to Double Deuce. - [8]
- Changed his User page to make it appear as though he was leaving the Wiki. - [9]
- Kilroy
- Rewrote his userpage in 'Tavi formatting asking why he couldn't log in as Mr. Strong Bad (his user name on the old wiki). - [10]
- Lapper and Rogue Leader
- LePorello
- Changed his sig for part of the day. - [13]
- Seriously
- The Chort
- Replaced entire user page with a giant Vector Strong Bad head and the words "YOUR WIKI A SPLODE!" [16]
- The thing
- Thunderbird
- Sig changed to one spelling Thunderbird in readable but strange characters. - [21]
- Userpage "Fact of the Week" an obvious falsehood (saved a busload of nuns from crashing into a busload of puppies), and Userpage image flipped upside down.
- Venusy
- Page became a soft redirect to the Bonus Stage Ethereal Music - [22]
- Several users
- Take the joke a bit too seriously, and threaten to leave if the monobook skin isn't restored
- Accidently break the Wiki for themselves by choosing a skin other than MonoBook or Classic in Special:Preferences
Main
- Main Page changed to WikkiTikkiTavi Main Page.
- Monobook skin changed to tavistyle. As a side effect of the changes that were made, the other skins in the list stopped functioning correctly.
- Mass public outcry
- HRWiki:A History modified to reflect the downgrade
- Fanstuff Wiki put up a fake "You have new messages" banner on the main page. All of the tab titles were changed. Users who wished to complain were directed to their own talk page. The sidebar and some of the other messages were also modified.
- Article → unimportant location
- Talk → ramble on
- Edit → drastically alter
- History → find evidence
- Move → be willy on wheels
- Watch → stalk
- Unwatch → stop stalking
- Delete → abuse powers
- Unprotect → unshield
- You have new messages → j00 hav liek, noo t41k, yo0.
- This page has been accessed $1 times. → $1 people have eaten this page.
- My talk → you talk too much
- My watchlist → stalked people
- My contributions → stuff i trolled
- Main Page → Origination Point
- Fanstuff Guidelines → Orders of our Dictator...s
- Character Series → Character Crap
- Recent changes → Current Alterings
- Random page → RANDOMIZER!
- Help → N00B Guide
- Donations → What's Site Support?
April Fools 2007
Users
- Bluebry
- Had an "argument" with Has Matt?, mainly about the American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar.
- Changed his page and sig to display a sense of "newbishness"
- Venusy
- User page converted to ROT13.
- Changed "favourite Strong Bad Email", "Games on H*R", and "video games ever" to "tape-leg", "She Loves Me!", and "Bubsy 3D and "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" respectively, all widely considered the worst in their respective fields.
- 1337-ized sig.
- Replaced talk page with automatically generated complaints, including one that erroneously claimed his title as Prof. Venusy (see Essjay controversy).
- Replaced messages notice with a Blue Screen of Death and a link to http://www.maxforpresident.org .
- Translated navbar into hexadecimal.
- Wrote all edit summaries in reverse.
Main
- Main Page changed to a message stating that "The Homestar Runner Wiki has been shut down." An "Info" link announced the 2007 Spring Fundraising Drive.
- The CAPTCHA was replaced with one showing Homestar Runner related words (and the occasional "April Fools" message). It was also made to show up for all edits, instead of just for unregistered users and page moves.
- About half way through the day , any attempt to edit your sig came up with the following message:
This is real.
| System report: |
Please don't edit your sig today. Yes, other people did it, but each time they did it really bogged down the server.
Thanks for understanding.
Thanks for understanding.
Other Baleeted Nonsense
From the Sandbox
HRWiki:Spambox (started by BazookaJoe)
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And then I'll go and spoil it all... (originally posted by The Chort)
And then we'll go into a quiet little place and have a drink or two,
And then I'll go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like,
Raised by a cup of coffee.
Logs for 19 April 2024 (started by Has Matt?)
- (Block log); 14:92 . . Kilroy (Sailed the ocean blue | ctrbs) (blocked "User:The Chort" with an expiry time of whatever: Put a block log entry into the deletion log.)
- (Deletion log); 14:41 . . The Chort (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "James Blunt" with an expiry time of infinite: For producing crappy music)
- (Deletion log); 14:41 . . Lapper (Talk | ctrbs) (deleted "Strong Bad Email": Merged with Main Page.)
- (diff) (hist) . . m for kids; 14:39 . . Tom (Talk | ctrbs) (Reverted edit of Jay, changed back to last version by NSMC7364825482)
- (Block log); 14:39 . . BazookaJoe (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "User:It's dot com" with an expiry time of infinite: Rogue admin from the future!)
- (Block log); 14:39 . . JoeyDay (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "User:JoeyDay" with an expiry time of infinite: GOODBYE WORLD!)
- (Block log); 14:38 . . JoeyDay (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "User:Has Matt?" with an expiry time of infinite: Vandalism)
- (Block log); 14:37 . . Willy ON WHEELS! (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "User:Salty" with an expiry time of infinite: WoW)
- (Block log); 14:35 . . Salty (Talk | ctrbs) (blocked "User:Stu" with an expiry time of infinite: Drank too much Salty plum soda)
Ohhh, people with too much time on their hands...
Originally posted by Venusy:
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Translated from binary ASCII, this gives "-.-- --- ..- .... .- ...- . - --- --- -- ..- -.-. .... - .. -- . --- -. -.-- --- ..- .-. .... .- -. -.. ... .. ..-. -.-- --- ..- -.. . -.-. --- -.. . -.. - .... .. ... -- . ... ... .- --. . - .-- .. -.-. . .-.-.-" which is Morse code for "You have too much time on your hands if you decoded this message twice."
Phlip responded with:
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This is morse code for "48 6F 77 20 61 62 6F 75 74 20 69 66 20 49 20 64 65 63 6F 64 65 20 69 74 20 74 77 69 63 65 2C 20 72 65 73 70 6F 6E 64 2C 20 61 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 65 6E 63 6F 64 65 20 69 74 20 74 77 69 63 65 3F 20 44 6F 20 49 20 73 74 69 6C 6C 20 68 61 76 65 20 74 6F 6F 20 6D 75 63 68 20 74 69 6D 65 20 6F 6E 20 6D 79 20 68 61 6E 64 73 3F", which is hex ASCII (rather than binary, for so-called "brevity") for "How about if I decode it twice, respond, and then encode it twice? Do I still have too much time on my hands?"
Venusy replied:
42 61 20 6c 62 68 65 3f 20 47 75 6e 67 27 66 20 76 67 3f 42 61 20 6c 62 68 65 63 76 79 72 20 62 73 20 66 72 70 65 72 67 20 4e 6d 67 72 70 20 74 62 79 71 ? 42 65 20 62 61 20 6c 62 68 65 70 6e 65 20 63 75 62 61 72 ? 4f 68 67 20 6e 61 6c 6a 6e 6c 2c 20 6c 72 66 2e52 41 48 46 4c
Decoded from hex ASCII, this is "Ba lbhe? Gung'f vg? Ba lbhe cvyr bs frperg Nmgrp tbyq? Be ba lbhe pne cubar? Ohg naljnl, lrf. RAHFL", after ROT13, that gives "On your? That's it? On your pile of secret Aztec gold? Or on your car phone? But anyway, yes. ENUSY"
Phlip came back with:
⠓⠥⠓⠦ ⠊ ⠙⠑⠋⠊⠝⠁⠞⠑⠇⠽ ⠎⠁⠊⠙ ⠦⠕⠝ ⠍⠽ ⠓⠁⠝⠙⠎⠴ ⠁⠞ ⠞⠓⠑ ⠑⠝⠙ ⠞⠓⠑⠗⠑⠲⠲⠲ ⠁⠝⠽⠺⠁⠽⠎⠂ ⠞⠓⠁⠞ ⠺⠁⠎ ⠋⠥⠝⠂ ⠇⠑⠞⠄⠎ ⠝⠕⠞ ⠙⠕ ⠊⠞ ⠁⠛⠁⠊⠝⠲ ⠶⠊⠝⠉⠊⠙⠑⠝⠞⠁⠇⠇⠽⠂ ⠺⠓⠁⠞ ⠁⠗⠑ ⠞⠓⠑ ⠉⠓⠁⠝⠉⠑⠎ ⠕⠋ ⠞⠓⠊⠎ ⠑⠝⠙⠊⠝⠛ ⠥⠏ ⠕⠝ ⠽⠕⠥⠗ ⠃⠁⠇⠑⠑⠞⠑⠙ ⠝⠕⠝⠎⠑⠝⠎⠑ ⠏⠁⠛⠑⠦⠶ --⠏⠓⠇⠊⠏ ⠞⠉
Which is Braille for "Huh? I Definately said "on my hands" at the end there... anyway, that was fun, let's not do it again. (Incidentally, what are the chances of this ending up on your baleeted nonsense page?) --phlip TC" – if you can't read it (if you don't have the appropriate font) you can see it here. Venusy couldn't read it, so that's where the conversation ended.
