So, just to reassure you the AberWiki and ChannelAber, that you love so dearly, are not changing to a subscription model, it was not hacked, no Blod was shed and the wiki is not being upgraded (not today at least). In fact it was an april fools it didn't go quite as we intended, but worked pretty well anyway.
Were replaced with this page.
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[edit] The confusion
<hijacker> what the heck? ... <Orakio> What the fuck was all that bullshit <Gaz> ?? <hijacker> i have no idea ... <Orakio> http://aberwiki.org/ <Orakio> What the fuck is this? <Orakio> Did someone hack aberwiki? ... <Ultima> http://aberwiki.org/ WTF <feebalo> hmmmmm <feebalo> :/ broken <Ultima> ummmmm pay? <feebalo> oi hypno, wiki not work <Ultima> http://aberwiki.org/blod.html LOL <Ultima> hopefully the wiki is just getting upgraded and thats a joke page in the interim :/ <Ultima> the advert gifs are LOL <feebalo> hahahahaha <feebalo> blod <feebalo> educated stupid eh
[edit] The realisations
Oliver won with this private message before we'd even finished at about 5am.
<Oliver> april fail
* Gaz looks at yo uall <Gaz> April 1st people <Gaz> it's a fools ... <Mr_T> so, we came up with an awesome april fools, but swb/aimaz/hypno didn't get up and do it <hypno> we did you muppet
[edit] Other April Fools Pranks
- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1738258
- http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/internetspoofs/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree