Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2008

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The Article of the Day was a humorous article about a person by the name of Ima Hogg (actually a real person, despite the name). It was edited or vandalized 347 times on April 1.
The Did You Know section included interesting facts about John F. Kennedy being killed by government agents, Ben Affleck dying while shoveling snow, and six latrines being listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Main page for first half of day / Main page for second half of day)
Merovingian added "spacing" to the Main Page.
A note Wikipedia introduces a new feature, video articles and is looking for volunteers to present articles in front of the camera. Apply now! was added into the ITN section on the Main page. It stayed there for six minutes.

Kmweber initiates a RFA at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kmweber 2 where he suggests, among other things, that, as an admin, he would delete the main page and AfD, redirect and salt User:Jimbo Wales, put penis pictures on George W. Bush, and indef block anyone who votes "oppose" in his RfA.
User:Sean William initiates a RfB later moved to his userspace, which is transcluded on the RfA and RfB main pages.

A spam report by MER-C.
Jimbo Wales is reported as a vandal. Multiple times.
Users reported themselves to WP:AIV [3][4] and amazingly one was taken seriously [5]
Wizardman requests a checkuser on admins Bearian and Scarian.

JeremyMcCracken proposed the merge of Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, and Google into Internet.
Sceptre adds a "citation needed" template to this page. ^{[citation needed]} And so does TenPoundHammer...^{[citation needed]} or maybe it was one of his otters.^{[dubious – discuss]}
User:WikiLeon claims to be a doppelganger account of User:Lbmixpro, who is actually a doppelganger account of User:WikiLeon.
A Deletion Review of Wikipedia:Deletion review was opened by User:IronGargoyle.
Blue Laser announced that he was leaving.
MCP9x4 tried to merge Communism[7] into U.S.A[8]
Keilana and Tiptoety wheel warred over Jimbo's user rights and whether or not to grant him rollback. Which resulted in an indef block of Keilana by Tiptoety.
Metros added, over the "Outstanding requests" header on WP:CHECK, the headers "Poor requests", "Decent requests" and "Pretty good requests".
Portal:U.S. Roads was changed for the day listing a project stub as the "selected article" among other changes since reverted.
User:Dustihowe redirects the shortcut WP:AFD to the April Fool's Day page.

Drahcir created article AAAAAAAAAA... (real title was 200 letters) with content of 2000 A's. The page was deleted instantly and Drahcir got himself a 24-hour block. He was unblocked 1 minute later by the same admin, who chose to warn him first.
Mzmadmike posted a list of that rarest of things...List of Sunny Days In Britain In The 20th Century which was quickly speedied...however they missed the addition of the link in the climate section of the England article [[9]]
To make fun of the amount of time and effort spent on processes, Wikipedia:Requests for process was created.
Wikipedia:April Fools' Day was created. Now changed to Wikipedia:Pranking.