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Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2009

Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

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[edit] The Mission

In order to get a funny/unusual Featured picture onto the front page, it must be both a great picture and be used in a Wikipedia article.

[edit] Action Items

  1. What picture? We need to nominate some and vote on them.
  2. Whatever we choose has to be used in an actual Wikipedia article. Can we write an article that NEEDS a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe Greg Williams (who draws them for us) is sufficiently notable that we could write a short Bio article on him and illustrate it with a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe WikiWorld in itself is notable (it's a bit of a self-ref...but maybe that's OK considering that we only need it to get the image accepted).
  3. If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
  4. We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.

[edit] Proposed Images

  • Idea Proposal Howabout for AFMP 2009, we go the opposite direction? Instead of finding a high quality picture to slap onto the front page, we go out and find the most worst picture on Wikipedia? OR, find a lackluster picture, and try to incorporate some truthful yet humorous text? --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 10:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
    • I like the idea, but other's won't. It breaks the Ground Rules because the worst pictures don't have the highest standards. Royalbroil 12:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
      • ...I can't find the page now, but someone nominated a closeup of a pixel. Why don't we use that? --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 05:25, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pluto photo

Image:Pluto.jpg While it doesn't fall under the POTD requirements, it is in fact one of the best images we have of Pluto. -- MacAddct  1984 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Why would we want to put this on April Fool's Day? howcheng {chat} 02:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, it's not exactly the sharpest/highest quality photo yet still has the quality of being important in terms of astronomy... maybe it's not quite relevant, just something that popped into my head. -- MacAddct  1984 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Normally for April Fool's Day we pick some silly picture. We could probably write a silly blurb too but I'm not much of a comedy writer. howcheng {chat} 03:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Plus it has a copyright tag. IIRC Mr. Wales hates copyrighted images on the front page.--293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 22:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't think this image would pass the FP reviewers. Last year we took images that were already FP and chose the most appropriate one for the day. I think we should do the same for 2009 - get it featured first. Royalbroil 04:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)