I love Fanlore!

[sherrold]

I'm very excited that there's a new committee and some new attention being paid to it, and I love the new ideas rolling out.

But.

Personally, I'm not really to start talking Fanlore up in my LJ/DW and encouraging other people to play. I don't think it's time to start weekly activities, yet, either.

I think it's foolish to start pulling a bunch of new volunteers in while there are some specific issues that need to be addressed, and specific processes that need to be put in place.  There are questions strewn through administrative talk pages all over the place. Let's get so many of those answered, and a FAQ going, first.

Otherwise, I fear it will be like the first flush of excitement all over again. A lot of enthusiasum, gradually eroded by the lack of clarity and answers.

Though, maybe an early volunteer task is, going through the old admin talk pages and rolling up the big open questions... I might even volunteer to work on that if I thought there was someone to read and start working through the list once we'd compiled it.

2nd early volunteer task, while I'm on a role: make a list of other fannish wikis, and steal (where appropriate) their good ideas (not their articles: cool features of their home pages, ideas for recognizing their volunteers, etc..

Comments

[ellie]

I found it all very complicated so I did the simplest task, like making sure the People were sorted correctly (i.e. last name, first name) and changing the templates when the incorrect ones was used (i.e. FanProfile template when the UserProfile template should of been used or vica-versa).

Of course I hadn't done anything in a long time. I locked myself out (long boring story), but I am back. I think your suggestion is a solid one. The more procedures that you have in place the less people are left floundering. Clarity is always a good thing.