Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2012

Happy April Fools' Day!

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)
• FreeXMan (Russian translation)
• i-ghost (images)
• GianAwesome (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
• Psyke (items)
• Lent (Polish translation)
• Lexar (Modelled the Ricochest)
• Mr. Magoolachub (3D model render)
• Moussekateer (cname record)
• NeoDement (Modelled & textured the Crocketeer's Cloak)
• 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 for the Circular Circlesaw)
• Razor-X (Polish translation)
• Ryo (Spanish translation)
• 'Stache (French translation)
• Stevoisiak (Noticed we didn't have any April Fools plan)
• Stormbird (Russian translation)
• TheRealDoctor
• Weegeetnik (French translation)
• WindPower (organization, hosting, photoshop)
• ~www~ (Chinese translations)
• 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:

• Steam forums
• Facepunch
• reddit
• Twitter
• Fugworld

Content

The following content was made:

• Fake Ricochet 2 store page
• 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