I can see why it might be interesting, but I doubt it's a realistic goal in the near(ish) future. I mean, generally the fanlore approach as I understand it is that fans document their own subfandom community and history for themselves which then naturally is also interesting for people who are not members of the particular subfandom. It is not so much people researching fan communities and then explaining them like anthropology or something just because there is a yawning gap currently in fanlore's coverage. So to get some non-English language fandom documented in-depth you'd need to attract a lot of people from there to represent it, but why would anyone chose to document that in an English language wiki?
Sure, there are currently fans from different places active in fanlore, but my guess is that for many this is because they are into international online fandom. While I am a German fan, but have no clue about "German fandom" or its general history or anything like that, or much interest in it. So I'd be no help there. I wouldn't even know where I could find German fans who could add such info. So it's not enough to have people from countries active in fanlore they have to be into localized things to be helpful too. I have never read any fanfic in German, or been on a German mailing list or anything.
I mean, it is a sort of vicious cycle, similar as the blank of furry fandom that was talked about in another entry. As furry fandom seems to be active elsewhere to talk (like maybe the furry wikis? I am clueless), there is nothing in fanlore to make it attractive to that fandom, and apparently not enough overlap with the currently active fandom sections to get things started and to promote it, so no there is no apparent benefit for anyone in that subfandom to invest time and work in fanlore rather than in their own spaces.
The only way I see that kind of thing changing is to get fanlore large enough that as a kind of service it creates enough attention that interest ripples outward, and more people see benefits of joining and representing themselves, because it is larger or nicer or something more anyway than any other small niche wiki.
Right now not even many people from English-language media fandoms are attracted to fanlore, or see much point in representing those, even though the fit is much easier.
I'm not saying it isn't worth a try or shouldn't be considered if we ever manage to actually do outreach or advertise fanlore widely, but I think it is a bit pre-mature to design some structure of country focus articles when there is no idea how to interest people in filling them in.
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Sure, there are currently fans from different places active in fanlore, but my guess is that for many this is because they are into international online fandom. While I am a German fan, but have no clue about "German fandom" or its general history or anything like that, or much interest in it. So I'd be no help there. I wouldn't even know where I could find German fans who could add such info. So it's not enough to have people from countries active in fanlore they have to be into localized things to be helpful too. I have never read any fanfic in German, or been on a German mailing list or anything.
I mean, it is a sort of vicious cycle, similar as the blank of furry fandom that was talked about in another entry. As furry fandom seems to be active elsewhere to talk (like maybe the furry wikis? I am clueless), there is nothing in fanlore to make it attractive to that fandom, and apparently not enough overlap with the currently active fandom sections to get things started and to promote it, so no there is no apparent benefit for anyone in that subfandom to invest time and work in fanlore rather than in their own spaces.
The only way I see that kind of thing changing is to get fanlore large enough that as a kind of service it creates enough attention that interest ripples outward, and more people see benefits of joining and representing themselves, because it is larger or nicer or something more anyway than any other small niche wiki.
Right now not even many people from English-language media fandoms are attracted to fanlore, or see much point in representing those, even though the fit is much easier.
I'm not saying it isn't worth a try or shouldn't be considered if we ever manage to actually do outreach or advertise fanlore widely, but I think it is a bit pre-mature to design some structure of country focus articles when there is no idea how to interest people in filling them in.