Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day
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2011
“ | Introducing, the first annual Australium April Update, adding a new weapon and playable class! First up, forget the Holy Mackerel, and come check out the newest TF2 weapon, the cow. Originally hailing from 2fort, the cow is ready for battle, inflicting bleeding and milk upon your enemies. Also added is the first ever playable character addition, the Demopan! Equipped with his trusty Stout Shako and Frying Pan, this trading expert can interrupt team communications with trade requests. Enjoy the update!
— Latest Updates post for April Fools Day
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This article is about the April Fools' Day event. On April 1st, 2011, the Team Fortress Wiki altered the front page as part of a fictional Australium April Update. The "featured article" rotated between the pages for the new class, the Demopan, and the new Cow melee weapon for the Heavy. The Demopan page was originally created by Benjamuffin for his User page, while the Cow page was created specifically for April Fools' Day by Focusknock. The trending topics were changed to Cow, Demopan, Frying Pan, Bounty Hat, Chargin' Targe, Dangeresque, Too?, Stout Shako, and For 2 Refined for the day. A fake update post, written by Stevoisiak, was added to the current events describing the fake update.
List of archived pages
- April Fools' Day/2011
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/cs
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/de
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/es
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/fr
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/it
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/ja
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/ko
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/no
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/pl
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/ro
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/ru
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/sv
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/tr
- April Fools' Day/2011/Cow/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan/es
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan/ja
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan/ru
- April Fools' Day/2011/Demopan/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2011/es
- April Fools' Day/2011/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2011/ru
2012
On April 1st, 2012, the Team Fortress Wiki followed its April Fools' Day tradition. We hope you enjoyed the event!
The entire thing was completely unplanned; the idea and its realization all took place in our IRC channel from March 31st, 13:45 to release on April 1st, 2 AM (GMT-5).
Collaborators
The event was a collaborative effort between the following editors (in alphabetical order):
- Askarmuk (Russian translation)
- Asplode (Finnish translation)
- Armisael (Circular Saw weapon demonstration)
- ballad (Moral Support, general editing the articles, wrote some patch notes)
- Drunken_F00l (gently trolling the channel)
- Epic Eric (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
- Fashnek (Images, article and patch notes cleanup, secret IRC string pulling)
- FreeXMan (Russian translation)
- i-ghost (images)
- GianAwesome (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
- Psyke (items)
- Lent (Polish translation)
- Lexar (Modelled the Ricochest)
- Mr. Magoolachub (3D model render, images)
- Moussekateer (cname record)
- NeoDement (Modelled & textured the Crocketeer's Cloak)
- NuggetWarmer (Heartwarming Headache Model)
- Plummaster (Russian translation)
- Quinnjdq (Modelled & textured the Circular Circlesaw, textured the Ricochest, did some images)
- RJackson (organization, fake store and news pages, hidden ARG)
- R4wrz0rz0r (Made the kill icon, item attributes and thought of the "deresolution" effect for the Circular Circlesaw)
- Primrose (Heartwarming Headache Texture)
- Razor-X (Polish translation)
- Ryo (Spanish translation)
- 'Stache (French translation)
- Sparkwire (Heartwarming Headache Model)
- Stevoisiak (Noticed we didn't have any April Fools plan, continual pushing of wiki cape resulted in Crocketeer's Cloak)
- Stormbird (Russian translation)
- Svdl (Heartwarming Headache Texture)
- TheRealDoctor
- Weegeetnik (French translation)
- WindPower (organization, hosting, photoshop)
- ~www~ (Chinese translation)
- Yjy950105 (Korean translation)
Release
All the contributions of this event were all publicly visible on the recent changes page. Somehow, nothing leaked, until it was released on the following mediums:
Content
The following content was made:
- Fake Ricochet 2 store page (full-size wallpapers)
- Fake TF2 news page
- Fake TF2 patch article and translations
- Event announcement and translations on the Main Page.
- Fake Ricochet 2 article and translations
- Circular Circlesaw and translations, a weapon demonstration video, and a model replacement.
- Heartwarming Headache and translations
- Crocketeer's Cloak and translations
- Ricochest and translations
- Post-event page
Reactions
Other than on the release pages, other reactions to the event have emerged:
- SPUF: "If that is joke, some people are going to be mad. I want to point out something."
- SPUF: "But..." .. "I liked the new items"
- SPUF: "If the Ricochet 2 Promos ARE Real"
- YouTube: Half Life Snacks (comments)
- Reddit /r/gaming thread about the Ricochet 2 page
- Facepunch: "Ricochet 2 ANNOUNCED!"
- SPUF: "Ricochet 2 on Steam"
- SPUF: "Half Life 3 April Fools Jokes"
- TF2 Tightrope (implemented the weapons)
- SegmentedNext (who mistakenly thinks Valve was behind it)
- OXCGN (who also mistakenly thinks Valve was behind it)
Trivia
- Valve was not involved in any way in this update; everything has been thought of and created by Wiki editors.
- There was hidden text on the background of the fake store page, with a copy of Portal 2 to win. It was found before it was even launched.
- Try clicking the "log in"/"sign in" link in the fake pages.
- Look at Engineer's belt on the Heartwarming Headache infobox image.
List of archived pages
- April Fools' Day/2012
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/April 1, 2012 Patch/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/Circular Circlesaw/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/Crocketeer's Cloak/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2012/Current Events
- April Fools' Day/2012/Current Events/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Current Events/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/Heartwarming Headache/zh-hant
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochest/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/fi
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/fr
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/pl
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/Ricochet 2/ru
- April Fools' Day/2012/es
- April Fools' Day/2012/ko
- April Fools' Day/2012/pt-br
- April Fools' Day/2012/ru
2013
On April 1st, 2013, the Team Fortress Wiki still followed its April Fools' Day tradition. We hope you enjoyed the event (again)!
Collaborators
The event was a collaborative effort between the following editors (in alphabetical order):
- 'Stache (French translation)
- AgentBull (German translation)
- Alexelgeco (Spanish translation)
- ALEXMIRONENKO98 (Article(ru): April 1, 2013 Patch)
- Ashes (Articles(en): Easter Bundle, Ranger's Returner, Eggsterminator, Egg Basket ;; General organization)
- Asplode
- CaptainObviouslyObvious (Images: Backpack Eggsterminator, Backpack Lagomorphic Listeners)
- Cobaltcakes (Images: Egg Basket, Eggmill)
- Darkid
- Dio (Image: Ranger's Returner)
- Djjak90 (Image: Lagomorphic Listeners)
- Eels (Articles(en): Eggmill, Easter Mode) (Image: Crit Egg)
- Epic Eric (Brazilian, Portuguese translation)
- Emrfish6 (Image: Exploding bunny)
- Fuzzy (Article(ru): Easter Mode)
- Godisme (Article(en): Eastralian Update)
- Hinaomi (Articles(en): Exploding bunny, Extraordinary Easter Eggs, Lagomorphic Listeners, April 1, 2013 Patch ;; Idea: Patch note)
- KOSOY (Articles(ru): Ranger's Returner, Eggsterminator, Lagomorphic Listeners, Extraordinary Easter Eggs, Egg Basket, Exploding bunny, Eastralian Update)
- Liquid Fire (Danish translation)
- Mecha the Slag (Kill icon for Ranger's Returner)
- Pumpkin671games (Article(ru): Easter Bundle)
- Stevoisiak (Article(en): April 1, 2013 Patch) (Image: Lagomorphic Listeners workshop preview)
- TheRealDoctor (Articles(en): Ranger's Returner, Eggsterminator, Easter Bundle v1 ;; Idea: Egg Basket)
- RocketStickyJumper ("DancingEngie" - Eggs kit)
- Ryo567 (Spanish translation)
- WindPower (Organization, hosting, photoshop)
- Wizzy (Article(ru): Eggmill)
- Yjy950105 (Korean translation)
Content
The following content was made:
- Fake TF2 news page
- Fake TF2 patch article and translations.
- Fake Easter event article and translations.
- Easter Bundle and translations.
- Eggmill and translations.
- Ranger's Returner and translations.
- Eggsterminator and translations.
- Lagomorphic Listeners and translations.
- Extraordinary Easter Eggs and translations.
- Easter Mode and translations.
- Egg Basket and translations.
- Exploding bunny and translations.