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Stub September is a challenge for Fanlore editors and gardeners to pick a stub and expand on it. A stub is an article on Fanlore that is under-developed and missing important information. Right now, there are nearly 1800 existing pages on Fanlore that are already identified as stubs. You're invited to use the list and the index at the top of the page to find a page where you know something more and edit the page to add your new information. It's as simple as that.

In addition to the identified stubs, there are also pages that are missing specific examples to define or illustrate the page topic. This category, examples wanted, is much shorter and needs more specific information. If you know any examples, please just add them to the page.

In other words, Stub September is a good month to add more information to existing Fanlore articles. Have fun and good luck!

ETA: Feel free to post links to the articles you work on, whether it is updating a stub yourself or reviewing a stub and upgrading it to the examples wanted template. Comment here and let your editing colleagues know what you've been doing. We all want to share the experience when we're improving on Fanlore.

aethel

A few news items from the Wiki Committee for you all.

First, users rightly pointed out that the Identity Protection policy page could be clearer about what to do when you have an identity protection issue (short answer:contact the committee!), so we added some bold text at the top of the page. The policy itself has not changed.

Second, the Archive of Our Own is hosting their second April Showers challenge to upload your old fanworks, especially from older fandoms that may be underrepresented on the archive. Each day will focus on a different fandom (announced via twitter, see also fanlore_news). As part of the challenge, we invite everyone to add their fandom memories to Fanlore. We will be hosting two editing chat sessions in the Fanlore chat room where you can ask questions about wiki editing.

The first session is this Friday 08:00 GMT (in your time zone)

The second session will be sometime during the weekend of April 14-15. More details later.

Thirdly, for those who are not subscribed to the

otw_news community, here is the Fanlore section of the OTW's March newsletter:

Another new member joined the Wiki committee: welcome, Shannon!

The Wiki committee is currently planning and working on several projects, including forums and a mediawiki upgrade to fight spam.

Last weekend, the committee held two informal chats for our new members and gardeners, which we hope to turn into a regular event for anyone interested.

On Fanlore, editors have been very busy adding vids to several new categories, for example Supernatural vids, Battlestar Galactica vids, Buffy the Vampire Slayer vids, Angel vids, and Firefly vids. Other new categories with many pages already are Vidding Awards and The Professionals Fanfiction.

aethel

Hello, everyone! The Wiki Committee is still in the process of collecting itself for the 2012 term, but

esskay has suggested some excellent challenges for February. They were all so good, I couldn't pick just one. We now present....

Fanlore Valentines!

1. Look up the Fanlore article on a fanwork you love to see if any reviews of the work are quoted on the page. If not, express your love by finding a review and adding a brief quote (with link) to the page. (If Fanlore doesn't have a page for this fanwork at all, feel free to start the page. Tell us why you love it!)

2. What challenges, fests, gift exchanges, etc., are running right now? Check to see if Fanlore has articles about them. If the article exists, add up-to-date information; if the article doesn't exist, create it!

If these don't tickle your fancy, check out esskay's list of Valentine challenges. And you are always welcome to take up a previous challenge at any time.

Here are some resources to get you started: ( Read more... )

aethel

At long last, a new challenge! The Total Braindump Challenge (from July) is definitely closed, and we now present....

Women Characters, Science Edition!

In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day (October 7), why not create a Fanlore article about your favorite female character who is a scientist, engineer, or mathematician? Tell us about your fannish experiences with these characters — the women themselves, the relationships they’re in (het, lesbian, canonical, fannish, etc.), the fanworks they star in — whatever you can think of! You can stub out a new page, or add a sprinkle of information on an existing page.

( editing resources )

aethel

The What's Hot Now challenge is officially closed! (Remember, you are always welcome to take up a previous challenge at any time; check out our previous challenges here.) We now present...

Total Braindump Challenge: "The best of times, the worst of times..."

Pick an event in fandom that, for better or worse, people are still
talking about years (or months) later. If it doesn't yet have an
article on Fanlore, create one, and throw into it everything you can
think of. Tag the page with {{stub}} and possibly also add the words
"total braindump" somewhere near the beginning, so later people know
they're actively encouraged to clean up the page, add details, and
move things around.

Here are some resources to get you started: You can use the event infobox
template if you're starting a new page. Check out what events already have some coverage in the Fandom Occurrences category. If you want to write about something that happened at a convention, you can also look at the Convention category. Throw your ideas on a page and link to it here, so other people can add their memories, play with the formatting, etc.

awils1

A new Fanlore challenge awaits!

We challenge you to contemplate and document What’s Hot Now -- What’s the most recent fanwork (story, vid, piece of fanart) you’ve seen and loved? Create a page for it and write about why it is awesome.

Remember, you can always go back to the Red Print challenge at any time! We welcome new edits on old challenges :)

awils1

Thanks to all who contributed to our Examples Galore challenge! We really appreciate it :) Remember, you are always welcome to return to the an older challenge at a later date should you be inspired to do so!

Your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look up your favorite fandoms on Fanlore, and when you run into a thicket of red words (which means pages are waiting to be created), click on something you can’t believe no one’s written about yet!

You can also find a list of red links (pages that are linked to, but not created yet) at Special:WantedPages.

As always, have fun editing!

awils1

The last of the April Showers fandoms are up! Sorry about the delay in posting them! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

Here are the featured fandoms:

If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org.

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!

rbarenblat

As April Showers rolls along, the second six fandoms have all been revealed! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

Here's the list of this week's featured fandoms; check the infoboxes for the corresponding Memories subpages. Some fandoms pages may only be stubs and not have Memories subpages yet — they're just begging to be fleshed out! =D

* The Losers (AO3 Tag)

* Black Butler (AO3 Tag)

* Johnny's Entertainment RPF (AO3 Tag)

* Xena (AO3 Tag)

* Jane Austen (AO3 Tag)

* Final Fantasy (AO3 Tag)

If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org.

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!

ira_gladkova

Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed to the most excellent Women Characters Challenge! There was an amazing outpouring of contributions — too many to even know where to begin highlighting all these incredibly women, their fandoms, and the contributors who wrote about them; check the comments on that challenge post to get a sampling of the great additions! Remember, you're always welcome return to a challenge, so come back and talk about women characters anytime!

For now, it's time for our new challenge:

Examples Galore!

In keeping with April Showers, let's expand the range of examples on Fanlore! A lot of the examples given for fannish tropes and genres documented on Fanlore are fanworks from just a few fandoms. Find a trope or genre you like and add a link to a fanwork from your fandom. April Showers fandoms (first six already available, next group of six soon to come!) and all other fandoms welcome — just expand, expand, expand!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through April 25; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( Resources for adding trope/genre examples! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!

ira_gladkova

As April Showers rolls along, the first six fandoms have all been revealed! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

The fandoms highlighted so far as listed below; check the infoboxes for the corresponding Memories subpages. Some fandoms pages may only be stubs and not have Memories subpages yet — they're just begging to be fleshed out! =D

Star Wars (AO3 Tag)

Sailor Moon (AO3 Tag)

Figure Skating RPF (AO3 Tag)

The X-Files (AO3 Tag)

Diana Wynne Jones (AO3 Tag)

Mass Effect (AO3 Tag)

If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org, and don't forget to check out AO3's update on their side of April Showers!

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!

ira_gladkova

Happy April, everyone! This month, Fanlore and our sister project, the Archive of Our Own, are hosting a joint challenge: April Showers!

On the AO3, users are invited to import their older works: every day of April, a different fandom will be featured, focusing on fandoms with a sizable presence outside the AO3. Check out the AO3 news post for more info on the AO3 side of the challenge!

On Fanlore, contributors are invited to play along and preserve the fannish history and culture of those fandoms! Document the works you uploaded, or record your memories and reminiscences! Talk about the communities you used to be part of (or are still going strong!), the archives and sites and challenges and cons; create profiles for the fans who made an impact on you; revisit fandom debates; or just add whatever tidbits you can think of in that fandom about characters, ships, other fanworks — whatever fannish history and culture you want to share!

Fandoms will be featured in groups of six, one per day. At the end of each group, we'll post to this community with a list of the fandoms that have been featured and resources to help you work on them. We'll be making oral history subpages for each featured fandom, ready and waiting for your memories!

If you'd like to follow the fandoms as they're featured each day, check out the @ao3org Twitter account for daily tweets highlighting each fandom!

You're also welcome to work on any other fandoms in the spirit of April Showers — the more the merrier!

Watch this space for updates; we're looking forward to hearing from you!

ira_gladkova

Thank you to everyone who spread the word for our 5 Things Challenge! Some of the contributions included F.L.A.R.E. and ConFrancisco — so awesome to see more con stuff on Fanlore; keep it up folks! Remember, you're always welcome return to a challenge anytime!

For now, it's time for our new challenge!

Women Characters Challenge

As the observation of Women’s History Month in many parts of the world wraps up, why not give one last hurrah to the amazing women in our favourite canons? Tell us all about your fannish experiences with women characters — the women themselves, the relationships they’re in (het, lesbian, canonical, fannish, whatever!), the fanworks they star in — whatever you can think of! Stub out pages, or add a sprinkle of information on an existing page — let’s show how much we love these amazing women!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through April 11; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( Resources for character, ship, and fanwork pages/editing! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!

ira_gladkova

Thank you to everyone who spread the word for our Tell a Friend Challenge! You are always welcome to continue promoting Fanlore and can use the resources in that challenge post anytime!

Now it's time for our next challenge — one we hope is friendly to both newer and veteran contributors =D

5 Things Challenge

Pick a page - stub or not! - of a fandom, character, relationship, trope, person, or anything else at Fanlore. Add five details to it, large or small - bullet-point lists or full paragraphs, whatever you can think of!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through March 28; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( A few resources to help you get started! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!

ira_gladkova

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Call for Challenge Ideas and for all contributions to Share the Love. Pages created or updates for the Share the Love challenge include Nickey Barnard, Penny Dreadful, Renay, Seventhe, Chaosraven, and KJ — don't hesitate to keep contributing and making your friends' contributions to fandom known! We also had some great challenge ideas — in fact, we're using one of the right now!

Introduce a Friend!

Promote Fanlore participation to your fannish friends! Fanlore benefits most from multiple perspectives, and our contributors are our best advocates. Tell a friend about Fanlore, and encourage them to join in and document their particular corner of fandom, or to add another perspective on existing pages!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know any particular fans, newsletters, or communities that you've alerted, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through March 14; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

If you're not sure where to begin, you can always point your friends to this very entry — we're providing a list of links, as well as a short blurb suitable for submission to fan newsletters or as a short community promo. It's all behind the cut!

( Promotional text, links, and resources! )

ira_gladkova

Thank you everyone for your participation this year! Your next challenge will be... to think up some awesome challenges!

Do you have some fun ideas for expanding fanlore content? Are there some topics, characters, ships, creators, communities, or entire fandoms that you wish there was more content on? This is your chance to submit challenges! Please feel free to browse the challenge tag to see what kinds of challenges we've done in the past, but don't be afraid to submit something a little different, too! We'll be collecting challenge ideas for future use, and hope to use one of our new submissions for the very next one!

The submission period will last one week, and in the meantime the Share the Love challenge is still open for submissions =D

ira_gladkova

The Origin Stories challenge is now closed; thanks so much to everyone who contributed and helped us kick off the new year! Fan and user pages updated for this challenge include Kass, Mlle | User:Mlle, User:Espresso_Addict, and Justira — check them out, and don't hesitate to keep contributing to this challenge even though a new one is now available!

But the fan editing is not over, for now we get a chance to spread the love to others! Our new challenge is:

Sharing the Love

Writing about yourself might feel a bit too self-congratulatory... but writing about a friend won't! Do you have a friend or just someone you admire who's done something awesome in fandom? Stub out a page about that person and the awesome fannish things they do!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through February 14; the clock starts now; ready — set — go!

( A few resources to help you get going! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!

ira_gladkova

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the First Vid challenge! Pages created for this challenge include Hello, Canadian Actor Bingo, and Only Happy When It Rains; check them out, and remember that you can always respond to older challenges even after new ones have been posted — whatever gets us creating, editing, and contributing with joyous abandon!

And speaking of new challenges, I am super excited to announce the next one! It's a new year, and we have a very fitting theme:

Origin Stories

How did you come into fandom? Did someone show you the way in, or did you find fandom via google? When did you enter fandom? What was your first fandom? What does fandom mean to you?

This week, edit your user or fan page to include the story of how you got here and why you stayed.

Feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added! You’ve got two weeks; the clock starts now; ready — set — go!

( A few resources to help you get going! )

Please feel free to spread the word about this challenge, and have fun!

rbarenblat

We're closing out the First Vid challenge. It sparked new pages on Only Happy When It Rains (XF), Hello (SGA) and Canadian Actor Bingo (6CD). If you created a page in response to this challenge and it's not listed here, drop a comment and let us know.

This is our last challenge of 2010, but we'll be back in 2011 once the new OTW term gets underway, and we promise many more challenges in the new year. (If you have suggestions for challenges that would be fun to respond to, feel free to comment here with those ideas -- we welcome suggestions.)

Thanks for participating, everyone!

aethel

A Thousand Ships challenge is now closed! Pages created for the challenge include Eric/Tami from Friday Night Lights, Arthur/Eames from Inception, and Jim/Molly from Sherlock.

Our next challenge is First Vid:

Start a page about the first vid or AMV you ever saw, the one that made you want to see more of them!

This challenge will run for roughly two weeks. Feel free to drop a comment on this post to let us know what you've added.

( resources to get you started )

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Fanlore's Journal

Fanlore Challenge: Stub September

Wiki in March, April Showers, and policy page clarification

New Challenge: Fanlore Valentines

new challenge: Women Characters, Science Edition!

Total Braindump Challenge: "The best of times, the worst of times..."

New challenge: What's Hot Now

New challenge: Red Print

Final April Showers Lists

April Showers Week Two

New Challenge: Examples Galore!

April Showers - Group 1 - May It Pour!

April Showers on Fanlore and the AO3!

New Challenge: Women Characters!

New Challenge: 5 Things!

New Challenge: Introduce a Friend!

Call for Challenge Ideas!

New Challenge: Share the Love!

New Challenge: Origin Stories!

Closing out the First Vid challenge

New Challenge: First Vid

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