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Starting in | Starting in 2015, Pikipedia editors agreed on making '''{{w|April Fool's Day}} jokes''' on the wiki. These pranks are made in good faith, and only exist to entertain the readers. Although pretty much nothing is to be taken seriously, none of the pranks are to go overboard, to the point of being offensive or destructive. Readers who came to the wiki to learn about a subject should still be able to, after all. | ||
Normally, these are created by staff members, are placed on the wiki at midnight ( | Normally, these are created by staff members, are placed on the wiki at midnight (UTC) of the first of April, and are reverted back after 24 hours. After being reverted, this page gets updated with information about the year's prank, in order to enlighten readers on what the joke was. For a list of steps to take before, during, and after the events, please read [[Pikipedia:April Fool's Day procedure|this page]]. | ||
Editors can add to the joke articles at any time after April Fool's Day has passed, but they '''must''' have a good reason to do so. The idea of the joke and its core contents should be kept intact. For instance, adding an image to a gallery of funny images is all right. Changing the plot of a game is not. In addition, each article can also have extra contribution notes on its April Fool's Day disclaimer box. | Editors can add to the joke articles at any time after April Fool's Day has passed, but they '''must''' have a good reason to do so. The idea of the joke and its core contents should be kept intact. For instance, adding an image to a gallery of funny images is all right. Changing the plot of a game is not. In addition, each article can also have extra contribution notes on its April Fool's Day disclaimer box. | ||
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The idea for this joke article came from a post on [[Miiverse]] that, when shared, caused a lot of laughs within the editor community, half due to the incorrect name given to the [[Bulborb|Red Bulborb]], half because of the enemy's face in the screenshot. The article would focus on a fake Bulborb-like creature said to be quite majestic, only to have the images on the page show hilarious Bulborb poses. The name of the invented enemy and the main image come directly from the Miiverse post. In this joke, Pikipedia does '''not''' attempt to mock the player in the Miiverse post. We understand that not all players are familiar with the names of the enemies, and as such, would not dare to acknowledge such player mistakes, much less ridicule them. The image and name combination however, were just too funny for the community to ignore, leading to the creation of this light-hearted parody enemy article. | The idea for this joke article came from a post on [[Miiverse]] that, when shared, caused a lot of laughs within the editor community, half due to the incorrect name given to the [[Bulborb|Red Bulborb]], half because of the enemy's face in the screenshot. The article would focus on a fake Bulborb-like creature said to be quite majestic, only to have the images on the page show hilarious Bulborb poses. The name of the invented enemy and the main image come directly from the Miiverse post. In this joke, Pikipedia does '''not''' attempt to mock the player in the Miiverse post. We understand that not all players are familiar with the names of the enemies, and as such, would not dare to acknowledge such player mistakes, much less ridicule them. The image and name combination however, were just too funny for the community to ignore, leading to the creation of this light-hearted parody enemy article. | ||
Since 2015, the article has been maintained by various editors, to add more images and details from newer games. | |||
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[[File:Bulbmin and young.jpg|thumb|[[Bulbmin]] are among the most reasonable things to list as absent from ''Pikmin 4''.]] | [[File:Bulbmin and young.jpg|thumb|[[Bulbmin]] are among the most reasonable things to list as absent from ''Pikmin 4''.]] | ||
{{see|Pikipedia:April Fool's Day/Things not in Pikmin 4}} | {{see|Pikipedia:April Fool's Day/Things not in Pikmin 4}} | ||
Various ideas were suggested this year, but in the end, it was decided to go with an idea created by SupremeKirb and developed by PopitTart back in November, a joke article listing things not in {{p4}}. Shortly after, the team got to work on this year's joke, but it was almost not done because it was hard to work out a basic outline for what the list should be about. After all, it's very easy to just list a lot of [[wiktionary:randumb|randumb]] non sequiturs, but that's hardly any fun or interesting. Still, the team knew there was some potential there, so they kept trying different things. Over time more and more unique jokes came to the surface, and the list became a mix of things that complement the "humorous list of things not in ''Pikmin 4''" idea well: legitimate omissions from the past games, debatable omissions, stretches, omissions on a technicality, wild assumptions, oddly-specific things, things that ''obviously'' could never be in ''Pikmin 4'', things that ''obviously'' could never be in the ''Pikmin'' series to begin with, and so on. | |||
Alongside the list the structure of the article had to be carefully tweaked in order to pace the flow of jokes properly, trick the reader into making it look like a real article at first, be unexpected at every turn, and vary the kind of humor each tidbit had. This sort of list is something that can be added to almost indefinitely, but mostly because of time the page was finalized a few hours before the day | Alongside the list, the structure of the article had to be carefully tweaked in order to pace the flow of jokes properly, trick the reader into making it look like a real article at first, be unexpected at every turn, and vary the kind of humor each tidbit had. This sort of list is something that can be added to almost indefinitely, but mostly because of time, the page was finalized a few hours before the day. If you have any ideas that work, feel free to suggest them in the talk page, but please make sure they're funny and aren't just random nonsense, or just stating things that aren't in ''Pikmin 4'' with little attached humor. | ||
Main contributors: | Main contributors: | ||
* [[User:PopitTart|PopitTart]] | |||
* [[User:SupremeKirb|SupremeKirb]] | |||
* [[User:Espyo|Espyo]] | * [[User:Espyo|Espyo]] | ||
* [[User:Gulliblepikmin|Gulliblepikmin]] | * [[User:Gulliblepikmin|Gulliblepikmin]] | ||
* [[User:Soprano|Soprano]] | * [[User:Soprano|Soprano]] | ||
* [[User: | * [[User:Bossclips|Bossclips]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||