Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/Future

Instructions

You are free to work on whatever you want as long as it follows the rules.

Important: Unlike previous events, if no ongoing effort is made towards the actual event, it will be postponed. Acceptable ideas may be considered for future events, but please keep in mind that a collaborative effort is necessary to make the April Fools' event happen.

Please see our previous events to get a sense of what we're looking for:

• 2012
• 2013
• 2019
• 2021

Update procedure

The April Fools' Day event will begin at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 1st and terminate at 00:00 UTC+0 on April 2nd.

On April 1st (UTC+0):

• Editors: Move April Fools' content to the main namespace.
• Staff: Use our social media platforms to announce the fake patch.
• Staff: Publish any YouTube videos and related content.
• Staff: Update protected pages.

On April 2nd (UTC+0):

• Editors: Move April Fools' content to the Team Fortress Wiki:April_Fools' Day/2024/ namespace.
• Editors: Tag April Fools' content with {{Humor}} and {{April Fools|2024}}.
• Staff: Remove YouTube videos and related content.
• Staff: Restore protected pages.

Acceptable content

The following is allowed:

• Original content
• Steam Workshop content - Items from the Steam Workshop are only accepted with the creator's express consent.
• Content based on other Valve games
• Content based on third-party media (case by case) - Fake promotional items are allowed as long as they're not direct copies of the originals and do not put us or Valve in legal trouble.
• Off-wiki content (update pages, playable TF2 content, videos, fan-games, etc)

Adding new ideas

1. Check to see if your ides satisfies the criteria listed under Guidelines for April Fools' Events and Acceptable content.
2. Create a new new section to the Ideas section below.

Note: If your proposal introduces a new item or game mechanic, you or someone must write a wiki article about it.

Voting

1. Vote for your preferred ideas by posting a  + ({{c|+}}) or  - ({{c|-}}) in topic.
2. To be considered, an idea must receive at least 2  + votes.
3. Judges (Wiki Admins) will be able to veto or approve ideas as needed.

Project status tracking

Use this section to keep track of approved ideas.

Project tracking
Content	Required work	Progress	Translation progress	Notes
User tasks
Page draft: /April 1, 2023 Patch Page final: April 1, 2023 Patch	Ideas for patch notes	In progress	None. English article is not finished.	—
Staff tasks (protected pages, social media posts, etc)
Admin-only tasks (additional coding, etc)

Ideas

Click here to add your idea