HRWiki:April Fools' Jokes and Other Baleeted Nonsense

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For the last few years, many changes have been made to the wiki on April Fools' Day. This page hopes to document the changes throughout the years. For 2006, there's the obvious WikkiTikkiTavi styling, and the redesigned Main Page, on 2007 the fake message saying the wiki had been shut down, and for 2008 the jumbled text on all the pages. But what about the rest of the hi-larious pranks that happened? This page hopes to document them as well.

April Fools' 2006

Users

• Bad Bad Guy
  • Translated userpage into Ubbi Dubbi
• Color Printer
  • Flipped user page upside-down, similar to the prank at H*R.com.
• DeFender1031
  • Changed userpage into a duplicate of the article pork.
• 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]
• Heimstern Läufer
  • Rendered his userpage and signature in Chinese characters - [4], [5]
• 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
  • Switched signatures to link to each other's/other users' userpages while keeping the CSS intact. - [11], [12]
• LePorello
  • Changed his sig for part of the day. - [13]
• Seriously
  • Sig changed to emulate other users - [14]
  • Userpage changed to 1337 stylings - [15]
• The Chort
  • Replaced entire user page with a giant Vector Strong Bad head and the words "YOUR WIKI A SPLODE!" [16]
• The thing
  • Changed sig to Some Thingy, Teh Blue Guy, and Dr. Who? - [17], [18], [19]
  • Attempted to emulate It's dot com's userpage prank - [20]
• 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
• There was sufficient demand after April 1 that the TaviStyle skin was made a permanent choice in the user preferences. As of April 2, 2008, 43 users have the option selected in their preferences, about a third of whom have visited the wiki within the last year.

Related

• 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 user page and sig to display a sense of "newbishness".
• DorianGray
  • Changed his user page saying he had grown tired of Homestar Runner and was now into Bonus Stage.
• Invisible Robot Fish
  • Rewrote everything on his user page backwards.
• Loafing
  • Replaced his entire page with a message claiming he quit and moved to the Fanstuff Wiki. Let people bid farewell on his talk page.
• The Chort
  • Replaced his userpage with the contents of The Cheat, swapping every instance of "The Cheat" with "The Chort".
  • Replaced his talk page with a picture of CATS and the words "ALL YOUR WIKI ARE BELONG TO US".
  • Changed his signature to "Teh Torch".
• The thing
  • Changed userpage to look non-existent.
• Venusy
  • User page converted to ROT13.
  • Changed "favorite 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.
• Partway 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.

ok

April Fools' 2008

Users

• DeFender1031
  • Replaced user page with contents of Pork.
  • Sig flipped upside-down.
• DorianGray
  • Created a fake subpage.
• Heimstern Läufer
  • Sig changed into the Chinese for Mao Zedong.
• Homestar-winner
  • Claimed that his account had been bought by Newgrounds.com.
  • Created a humorous new sig.
• Jay
  • Changed his user page to appear vandalized
  • Turned sig into a pile of virus-ish vaguely Homestar-related gibberish.
• Lapper
  • User page colors inverted.
• Phlip
  • User page and sig transcribed in Braille.
• Qermaq
  • Reversed sig.
• The thing
  • Changed his user page to look like it had been by NSMC.
  • Sig turned into a short story about him.
• Wbwolf
  • Sig changed into Japanese.

Main

the How Page Main on Fools' 2008. Day looked April

• Every page on the website, except Special pages, scrambled the words within each block of text, so that something like the following:

I'm The Homestar Runner! Some folk say I'm a terrific athlete.

Might appear instead as:

Some Homestar I'm say Runner! terrific a folk I'm athlete. The

• The logo was changed to show Homestar's torso instead of head, and the words "Wiki" and "Homestar Runner" were switched top to bottom. (Homestar still blinked as he peeked over the word "Wiki".)

Other Baleeted Nonsense

From the Sandbox

HRWiki:Spambox (started by BazookaJoe)

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,
"I'm not gonna lie to you, that's a healthy piece of real estate!"

Logs for 16 May 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 2e 52 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 ^T_C" – 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.