Fandom by country/language?

[sqbr]

A while ago (before Fanlore) I was curious about the difference between fandoms by country and couldn't find much information. I came across some interesting information today about Russian fandom and decided I'd help out anyone else interested in the subject by adding it to Fanlore..and couldn't find any pages about Russian (or Russian language) fandom.

I decided to make a page following the template of some other country or language specific fandom page..and couldn't find any. The closest was tags about the country a work is set in, which is really not the same thing.

So: is there a template/example for this sort of thing I'm missing? If not, should there be one? There's been lots of discussion on metafandom about fandom in non-English-speaking countries which I think would make for interesting reading and I imagine it could be helpful to have links for non-English speaking fans to find each other. I also think that specifying when things are country specific would help avoid the "Fandom=American/English speaking fandom" thing. Also there's a lot of Japan/Japanese specific topics which it seems logical to have a Category for.

I'm still very new to editing the wiki and feel like this sort of thing should be done in a proper consistent way so am uncomfortable just chucking a page together based off my best judgement, especially since all I have to add to the page is a few links and "this is a stub".

The links about russian fandom, for anyone who's interested or feels like making a page:
http://henryjenkins.org/2007/07/oh_those_russians_the_not_so_m.html
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/07/oh_those_russians_the_not_so_m_1.html
http://ruff.fanrus.com/

Comments

[sky]

Also there's a lot of Japan/Japanese specific topics which it seems logical to have a Category for.

This is a bit tangential to the actual suggestion, but I feel I should point out that Japanese-speaking fandom doesn't really have a presence on Fanlore per se. There is a lot of discussion of the extensive English-speaking fandoms for Japanese + other Asian media, though.

Sorry if you already knew this and I'm just reading your post wrong D:

[ratcreature]

Well, I think the categories on fanlore completely suck anyway. Almost as much as the search. I mean, you can't even easily display all articles relevant to a fandom, because fandoms aren't categories either. There are a few articles about non-English stuff (I have added articles about a German fanclub and fanzine for example), but I just treated it like the other articles, with the same kinds of templates used for English fandom so these aren't country labelled or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Here's an article about Finnish Fandom:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:45KO6vl2p90J:www.helsinki.fi/jarj/hysfk/marvin/fandom.html+%22captain%27s+Log%22+fanzine&cd=53&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us