Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2006

April fools 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 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.
 * Esperanza tagged as copyvio by Drini
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 * User:Gflores adding Willy on Wheels to 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 (originally attributed to "anon editor", was Treec's/LoganK's IP address)
 * Extreme overlinking
 * User:Lbmixpro blocked indefinitely per decision of WP vandals.
 * 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
 * Articles for deletion/Wikipedia, created by Sikon
 * Intentional Prank Unit by Treec/Logan Kriete
 * Buchanan-Hermit's lack of tolerance for "vandals" like himself.
 * Featured picture candidates/Ceiling Cat - pic by User:Samguana, nom by Harr o 5
 * 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.