Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024/Operation Radiance

Operation Radiance

Operation Radiance (ORAD, codenamed Opera) was a pair of projects involving numerous changes or additions performed on joke articles for deletion nominations, taking place on 1 April 2024. The operation was named for its two constituent projects: the names of these projects were related to the emission of energy (light and heat).

Adobe Flash is the only nomination to be part of both projects.

Project Spectrum

A total of fourteen deletion nominations have links and humor message boxes display a non-default color scheme. Every nomination's color scheme corresponds to that of the subject (e.g. blue for Cookie Monster). Brightly-colored text, such as yellow, are tinted slightly darker for readability on a white (default) background. The design of the nominator's signature resembles a typical platform sign on the Chicago "L" but with the colors reversed. The project is named for the color spectrum, owing to the different colors being used in all fourteen nominations. Affected nominations include We Didn't Start the Fire, Hatsune Miku, and Color. Barbenheimer is the only nomination to incorporate two colors at once ( #f08  and #888 ). On the April Fools' Day 2024 main page, every Project Spectrum topic link displays colors on both the text and its border.

Project Fire

A total of twenty deletion nominations are about memes and events on the Internet within the past twenty years. Every nomination—with the exception of Internet, which displays 2004 in the nominator's signature—begins with "I may be x years late, but...." The beginning phrase indicates that the nominated subjects are no longer relevant or newsworthy in 2024. The project focuses on one topic for each year from 2004 to 2024. The project is named for the song We Didn't Start the Fire, which lists major historical events from 1949 to 1989. Affected nominations include Baby (Justin Bieber song), The dress, and YouTube Rewind. Two of the nominations relate to copyright on the Internet; three other nominations relate to YouTube's most disliked songs or videos in much of the 2010s.