Wiki/April Fool's Day, 2006

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front_page_full.jpgThe front page of Davis Wiki on April 1st, 2006

On April 1st, 2006, the DavisWiki became the MyDavisWiki, "a place for friends". This was a spoof of the (popular in 2006) site [wikipedia]MySpace. Colors and layout were changed to make the Wiki look similar to MySpace, users were picked out and "featured", and very mainstream and pop music played on the user pages as well as any other pages with a comment box on them (just like MySpace user profiles). The Wiki Sandbox, which sported several comment boxes on that day, roared with a cacophony. Most pages had random titled background pictures, as well.

The music was randomly selected from:

profile.jpgA typical page on Davis Wiki.

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Wonderful. Just lovely. The dragon print background really complimented my user page. —JillWeinstein


Simply amazing. —AndrewBanta


Personally, I thought it was tacky and pulled my page for the day in response. Let's not have a repeat of this. I take issue with the professionality of it. Yes, it was a great April Fool's Joke. However, it took away the reputability of the Davis Wiki as a resource for people looking for information on Davis. —MatthewKeys


I was so pissed that when I realized I'd been had, I had to make a donation. —PaulThober


This was an excellent April fools joke in particular, and there were several good ones throughout the area. I'm impressed. —JaimeRaba


2006-04-04 18:07:56   i think it's ironic. all of it. mydaviswiki was funny because there had been some talk about people coming in, creating pages, and then doing nothing. some people even left claiming the wiki was "the new myspace" and of all those people, mr keys is one to speak up about it, while his page has been called "myspace overflow" and very "lj drama-esque" from it's constant comings and goings when things bother him. i freaking loved the mydaviswiki, it was excellent, such a damn eye sore but the music was so cliche myspace and the ugly schemes.... excellent job on this year's april fool's! —MichelleAccurso


2006-04-04 19:56:50   Considering the short duration of April Fool's Day, I don't think it cast the Wiki in a negative light. Props to the team who pulled it off! —CindySperry


2006-04-05 00:15:29   I was saddened by this. I knew it was just for April Fools' Day, but I felt like my page had been soiled with the evils of bad music! —KarinaSummers


2006-04-05 06:01:13   I'm still hoping to get the Star Wars "Imperial March" as the music for my userpage. —BrentLaabs


2006-04-09 23:57:58   I was completely fooled. My train of thought went something like this: "I came to the page after typing in the typical daviswiki.org... I thought.. no this isn't my wiki.... tried .com no luck... where's my davis wiki??? googled it... same thing..... oh no!!! the daviswiki team wouldn't do that!!! But... same info right? Damn it is my daviswiki.... Well... let's just get the info i came here for and hope someone comes to their senses.... damn music... where's that coming from? Davis wiki!!!! NOOOO!!! wth with the tacky ass wallpaper...... sigh i gotta get out of here." Next day I came back... "whew they came to their senses" Today, over a week later.... realized it was an april fools joke.... *sigh* —CarlosBarahona


2006-04-10 08:57:22   ZOMG can we get over this yet? It's done, it's over, ain't nothing you can do to fix it now. —CindySperry


2006-04-10 12:21:53   I would like to reiterate Arlen's point, since it seems to have gone ignored, that some of the very most "professional" websites in existence, such as yahoo & google, conducted major April Fools pranks as well — So is MatthewKeys holding us to a hire standard than Google or what? —KrisFricke

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