A mini-introduction and a call for brainstorming!

[cin1607]

Hey all!

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Cin and I’m new on the wiki committee this year. *waves* I see that back in September, ratcreature made a brilliant suggestion that we post themed challenges to this comm to stir up more regular waves of activity and enthusiasm and updates to the wiki. Plus, it would give us good excuses to go poke our fannish friends and say, “Hey! They’re talking about X on fanlore this week. Do you remember that? Let’s create/update a page for that on the wiki!” I love the idea! I intend to grab that ball and run with it!

If you check out the original thread, you’ll see a lot of good suggestions already, but I’d like to spend a little time before I throw out the first official challenge and do some brainstorming. What would you like to see? What would work? What might not? At this point, I’ve seen:

What was your first fandom?

What was your first fandom community?

Focus on conventions.

Focus on holiday exchanges.

Did you come into fandom between (pick a span of dates)? Which fandom? Do you remember X event from then? (“It was May, 1999. Ricky Martin was at the top of the music charts, and The Phantom Menace ate fandom!”)

Focus on specific fandoms, or specific fandom events. (“Hey X-Files slash fans, do you remember the “Kiss heard ‘round the world?”)

I think we can have a lot of fun with this! Start lobbing ideas. I’ll take notes and if we get a bundle, I’ll do a poll and we can hopefully get the first up and running next week. :)

Comments

[elf]

I keep thinking I should write up something for Rule 6. Except I wasn't actually *at* that TimeCon; I had friends who were, and I remember the aftermath for the next few conventions (and to some extent, the still-existing aftermath; BayCon still has Rule 6 parties. They're cuddly.)

Would like more discussion of pre-internet-explosion fandom, to encourage filling in the history of fandom before ~1990 (or 1998 or so, when the WWW got big). Pre-WWW fandom is almost unmentioned at Fanlore, except for listings of zines.

[cin1607]

Yes, I'd like to see more info from the pre-internet area, too. I came into fandom around 1994 and my first fannish community was a usenet book group. Surely there was life in the Vampire Chronicles fandom before alt.books.anne-rice. *g*

As for Rule 6, I say start writing and put something up. Once there's a stub, it might be easier to attract people who could add to it. :)