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April Fools' Day is nigh, and once again I have to remind you that having a piss-poor (or no) April Fools' joke on the front page is unacceptable for a comedy wiki. Really put your heads together on this one. This is the year we reinvent ourselves after breaking free of the shackles of Wikia. -- Kip the Egg Talk Works 12:38, Mar. 18, 2013

Ideas

• Let's parody the Wikia-based Uncyclopedia? Like censoring every picture of men (NIPPELS OH MY GOD!), parodying that so called 'humor' what they are currently doing, like puttting up some random picture as a featured one... You get the idea, right? Cat the Colourful (Feed me!) Zzz 12:41, 18 March, 2013 (UTC)
• A Wikivoyage-style takeover of Uncyclopedia by the Wikimedia Foundation, because they couldn't find anything else to do with the millions of donated dollars which keep flooding in? Carlb (talk) 14:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
• Let's unprotect the frontpage. Because only good can come from that. Again. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 16:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

YES. The last time we did that it was epic. But someone has to make a bot to automatically protect it on the 2^nd. —  (talk) (contributions) 03:49:03 2013/03/19 UTC

• Content warning. It's the lamest thing of all eternity on a humor wiki. Let's do something with that. -- Style  Guide 20:30, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
• Let's turn off the site from 8 AM to 6 PM and say "Oscar Wilde shut us down. We all owe $69,000,000 in debt. Uncyclopedia 2004-2013.  Sir Peasewhizz Biblio HOS Awards 22:52 3.19.13
• We could edit the Wikia mirror site for a day. MrN 22:59. Mar 19. 2013
• I have a few crazy ideas:

1. Really take advantage of our freedom from Wikia! Things that got us slapped with a content warning and thus spawned this revolution.
2. Parody Wikipedia by making the main page look all mock serious and Wiki-like. (A reversal of how Wikipedia gets all silly and Uncyclopedia-like on April Fool's Day.) Find Featured Articles (past or present) that are serious or look serious enough to fool someone who has never visited.
3. We bring back Toonami... Oh, wait! PF4Eva, the President of Imagination Vote for me My tax returns 00:23, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

• A variation on a theme I'm seeing a lot of: Front page is an apology and a call for reconciliation and reunification with wikia. --monika (talk) 00:26, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

UnProtect front page

Score: 0

 For. Nothing needs to be said. Wait, I did. -- Style  Guide 12:52, 20 March 2013 (UTC) Forget it then, I'll jump the bandwagon instead. -- Style  Guide 17:02, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Apology and Call for Reconciliation with Wikia

Score: +8

•  For - Anyone remember this? Yeah, we can top that. -- Kip the Egg Talk Works 13:07, Mar. 20, 2013
•  For. - Definitely, unprotecting the main page is used already. Cat the Colourful (Feed me!) Zzz 14:19, 20 March, 2013 (UTC)
•  For. - I guess since this is my idea, I should vote for it or something. --monika (talk) 16:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
•  For. I feel relieved to be in a crowd for once. -- Style  Guide 17:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
• For. Obviously it would have to be extremely over-the-top and sarcastic ("We all miss the content warning! Censorship equals humour!" etc). That way the Uncyclowikians will take it seriously. -- The Zombiebaron 18:01, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
  • OH MY GOD! That forum was the best laugh I've had in forever. They were arguing that Wikia wasn't taking enough control over that site! AHAHAHAHA! The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 21:04, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oh exploitable —  (talk) (contributions) 20:07:19 2013/03/20 UTC
• Yes  Sir Peasewhizz Biblio HOS Awards 02:11 3.21.13
•  DoublePlusGood I can get behind this. PF4Eva, the President of Imagination Vote for me My tax returns 18:09, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Comments

Agreed strongly with the undead one. Has to be some of our best shit. I would still love (yes, in a very gay fashion) to see content warning linked to it somehow. -- Style  Guide 21:50, 20 March 2013 (UTC)