Challenge: Newsletters!

[cin1607]

So I was cruising around Fanlore looking at some of the proposals for challenge topics and hit the Newsletter page and saw that it was a stub. And then I looked at the Newletter Communities subpage and saw that it was a sea of red! There are over 100 newsletters listed on the page, but only a handful actually have any information in the wiki. Most are just empty pages. There are links to the actual newsletters associated with almost all of them, which will be helpful, but we really don't want all of the information about these (for me, at least) absolutely critical fannish resources to be dependent on the permanence of an external link!

This should be an easy fix and there are enough fandoms listed, I'm sure there's something for everyone. Let's create proper pages for these newsletters! Here's a handy template that will create the nifty Community Profile box for you. Start with that, and as for the rest, see what you can discover. Who founded it and when? Who maintains it now? Is it inclusive or exclusive? How are they gathering their links? Does it have any particular quirks or controversies? Is the journal defunct? What happened? And if you're in a fandom and you have a newsletter that's not listed, by all means add it!

Let's see what we can get done this week. Next Wednesday, we'll tackle something new. :)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Did a link for the Starsky and Hutch Round Up, but not know to make it blue. ~~~~

Mrs.PotatoHead

[ratcreature]

That was a naming issue, I made a redirect, it's linked now.

[arduinna]

I added some history on print and email newsletters to the main page, but if anyone has more information there, that would be fab; the print ones were before my time, and I only ever got a few of the email ones. (None of which I seem to have anymore. I could cry - I could have sworn I had them tucked away somewhere, argh!)

[meri_oddities]

I started to work on the Harry Potter ones. The communities themselves have information on the info pages. It makes a good start.

[ratcreature]

Will these projects that are going on be visible anywhere on the wiki? Like in the News section or the page for new visitors or the main page or wherever? I can't find any mention in the wiki itself.

[cin1607]

Gah! Yes, I meant to do that last night and got sidetracked. Must run to work right now, but I'll put it up in the News section today. Thanks for the reminder!