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== 2022 == | |||
=== Hocotate Freight === | |||
[[File:Hocotate Freight front page.png|thumb|The front page, taken over by Hocotate Freight.]] | |||
{{see|Pikipedia:April Fool's Day/Hocotate Freight}} | |||
A popular April Fool's Day joke for wikis is to make it look like it has been taken over by some character with a wild personality and conflicting goals. So this year, Pikipedia staff decided on changing the front page to make it look as if [[Hocotate Freight]] bought the wiki and took over. | |||
In order to align with the company's goals of advertising its shipping prowesses and its catalog of goodies, the [[Hocotate ship]] was put in charge of reworking and restyling the front page. Of course, with a company as greedy and clumsy as Hocotate Freight, readibility and browsing comfort went out the window, and instead the front page was focused more on trying to sell things to people in the most agressive way possible. This meant strong colors, all-caps, animated text, and all sorts of buzzwords to lure potential buyers in. | |||
The layout of the front page remained mostly the same, and most of the links still served for legitimate Pikipedia browsing. That said, small bits of text, as well as the featured article, trivia, and news, were replaced with some jokes that would seem plausible coming from Hocotate Freight. Everyone knows how, despite doing their best and having some [[Captain Olimar|beloved characters]] as employees, their poor business and operation strategies usually result in them getting into a lot of trouble, so the jokes aimed to capitalize on that. Plus, with the pompous and proud Hocotate ship at the helm, some of the jokes had to be about the ship flaunting it and its company's qualities, even if it meant throwing others under the bus. | |||
Initially, the background would be a solid blue color, to really hammer in that clichéd infomercial style, but it quickly became obvious that that would be too painful to look at, so it was changed to a white and red gradient. The website style change affected the entire wiki, and this, combined with its intense effects, made the new style a bit polarizing between users, even if it was only for the sake of a joke that lasted a day. Users who disliked it were eventually able to turn it off at will in the [[Special:Preferences|user settings]]' gadget preferences, and readers who liked it were pleased to learn they could still apply the style after April Fool's Day, by enabling it in the same gadget preferences page. Oh, and the poll results before the joke got reverted were: [[Five-man Napsack]] won with 42 votes (40%), [[Lip Service]] in second place with 34 votes (33%), and [[Insect Condo]] last with 28 votes (27%). | |||
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* [[User:Espyo|Espyo]]: Direction and execution | |||
* [[User:Porplemontage|Porplemontage]]: Technical assistance and support | |||
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