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

Just in case I'm misunderstanding...

[sherrold]

Is there an existing current effort to find outstanding issues?

Would it be okay if I asked for other volunteers to help with this?

Re: Just in case I'm misunderstanding...

[meri_oddities]

No. We have a list of some of the issues, but we're worried we don't have everything. The list was compiled on our internal wiki by one of the gardeners. Mostly from old meeting notes and from the bug list and issues page on the wiki.

Here and here

Yes, feel free to pull in whomever you'd like to help with this. We seriously appreciate the help. This will also make sure we don't miss anything.