Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2012

On April 1st, 2012, the Team Fortress Wiki followed its April Fools' Day tradition.

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).

Collaboratos

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
• Drunken_F00l (gently trolling the channel)
• Epic Eric (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
• i-ghost (images)
• GianAwesome (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
• Psyke (items)
• Lent (Polish translation)
• Mr. Magoolachub (3D model render)
• Moussekateer (cname record)
• NeoDement
• Plummaster (Russian translation)
• Quinnjdq (Modelled the Circular Circlesaw, did some images)
• RJackson (organization, fake store and news pages, hidden ARG)
• R4wrz0rz0r
• Razor-X (Polish translation)
• Ryo (Spanish translation)
• 'Stache (French translation)
• Stevoisiak
• 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
• Fake Ricochet 2 article and translations
• Circular Circlesaw and translations, and a weapon demonstration video
• 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
• Facepant: "Ricochet 2 ANNOUNCED!"
• SPUF: "Ricochet 2 on Steam"
• SPUF: "Half Life 3 April Fools Jokes"

Trivia

• 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