LOTR and the Help pages

[aethel]

Two things I wanted to ask about and/or draw attention to:

1. We've been talking about moving LOTR RPF to a top-level page. The only question is how to represent the name. One vote for LOTRiPS, one for Lotrips. I've seen various capitalizations. But I was only in Lotrips for half a second (or a month?), so I wouldn't listen to me. More votes wanted!

1a. Speaking of which, the LOTR pages, not to mention the Doctor Who pages and the Star Wars pages, need to be reorganized. There's some discussion on the talk pages.

2. I've been looking through (and editing) the Help pages a lot lately. mrsvelvetears has been doing an excellent job of improving the language in the existing pages, but I think we need to add more pages to this namespace to document how we the editors have been handling certain topics in practice. There is a WIP help page already for Fandoms. I'd also like to have separate help pages for Characters, Pairings, Glossary terms and Fandom Glossaries, Fanworks, Lists, ...? These pages could be short or long and could include which template and categories to use, as well as naming conventions (to sub or not to sub), suggested headings and topics, and examples. There are some tips and discussion scattered throughout the wiki about these topics, but nowhere obvious. I'm willing to dive in, but would I be stepping on anybody's toes? Admittedly, it's a bit late in the game to ask, since I've already been editing the Help pages, but I thought I'd check in in case nobody had noticed....

Comments

[viklikesfic]

I've been in lotrips fandom for about five years and I've seen Lotrips much more commony than LOTRiPS. I'd love to help with the lotrips stuff on fanlore, incidentally, I've just been trying to figure out fanlore and how it works exactly *g*

[aethel]

Yay, come and join us on the wiki! As I mentioned, we have some help pages here, and the recent changes list has given me lots of ideas of where and how to edit.

[msilverstar]

Putting it on the top level would be gratifying to those of us still in the fandom.

And lots of Help would be very welcome! If only people knew to even check the help pages. It would be cool if major updates to Help were added to watchlists.

[aethel]

page is moved now!

Help is now a heading on the side bar, but there isn't an obvious way for newbies to browse the help category; perhaps there should be a link on the main page....

[meri_oddities]

Hi,

I think whatever the consensus is in terms of the title for Lotrips will be fine, but you all should be consistent once you decide.

One of the things that should be coming out soon is a new policy on Fandoms as Categories. Something like LOTR would probably become its own category at that point.

We (the Wiki committee) would be deeply appreciative of any help pages you wanted to work on. Seriously, there's more work to do than this committee can possibly get done in our term. Let us know what you want to do (or have done), and we'll work on something else. Trust me, there's plenty to go around. *g*

Thanks!

[aethel]

Okay! I just started a help page for pairing pages. I hope to work on the others I listed in the post later. I don't know how far I'll get before I'm swamped with RL stuff (but this makes for excellent procrastination).

[meri_oddities]

I totally get what a great procrastination tool this wiki is. The Harry Potter Fests & Exchanges page exists because I didn't want to work on something for RL. *g*

[sophinisba]

I'm definitely in favor of making Lotrips a top level fandom. As other people have pointed out in those discussions, it really has functioned as a separate but related fandom to LotR, not just a minor subset or something.

And thank you very much for working on the Help pages!

[aethel]

Good to know. Seems like everyone's spelling it Lotrips, so I guess that should be the name?

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Seems like everyone's spelling it Lotrips, so I guess that should be the name?

Sounds like you have more of a consensus on that than we had on many other issues. :) I just suggest LOTRiPS because I didn't want it to be Lord of the Rings RPS.