Point the first:
I created a mashup fandom template the other day for fandoms with multiple source texts selected based on the actors (bandmembers?) they have in common. Today I was tweaking it and looking at talk pages to see what other fandoms the template might be used on when I belatedly realized that I should have called it a "6 degrees" template. There's a 6 Degrees of Canada, 6 Degrees of SGA (still redlinked), and even a 6 Degrees of Pete Wentz. (And Kiefer/Lou.) On the Harrison Ford talk page, someone mentioned they were having trouble finding an appropriate fandom category to tag him with... So, are there enough of these fandoms to justify a "6 degrees" category (or some other term, I don't know what)? In any event, I'd love to see a wiki entry about this kind of fandom if anyone is knowledgeable enough to write one.
Point the second:
After my last post, I started five help pages before I ran out of steam. Check 'em out (and edit them):
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Fanworks
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Pairing_pages
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:People_pages
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Glossary
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Character_pages
Along the way I realized no one had added any character or pairing pages for RPF fandoms. Although now I see that isn't entirely true: see Monaboyd. There's a brief discussion here on how to organize RPF character and pairing pages that needs more input from RPF fans.
I created a mashup fandom template the other day for fandoms with multiple source texts selected based on the actors (bandmembers?) they have in common. Today I was tweaking it and looking at talk pages to see what other fandoms the template might be used on when I belatedly realized that I should have called it a "6 degrees" template. There's a 6 Degrees of Canada, 6 Degrees of SGA (still redlinked), and even a 6 Degrees of Pete Wentz. (And Kiefer/Lou.) On the Harrison Ford talk page, someone mentioned they were having trouble finding an appropriate fandom category to tag him with... So, are there enough of these fandoms to justify a "6 degrees" category (or some other term, I don't know what)? In any event, I'd love to see a wiki entry about this kind of fandom if anyone is knowledgeable enough to write one.
Point the second:
After my last post, I started five help pages before I ran out of steam. Check 'em out (and edit them):
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Fanworks
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Pairing_pages
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:People_pages
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Glossary
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Character_pages
Along the way I realized no one had added any character or pairing pages for RPF fandoms. Although now I see that isn't entirely true: see Monaboyd. There's a brief discussion here on how to organize RPF character and pairing pages that needs more input from RPF fans.
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BTW, I noticed that there are three Fanlore pages explaining the user page:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:User_Page
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:User_page
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Tutorial/Edit_Userpage
Is there a reason for putting an extra page in the "Fanlore" namespace? I can't edit the page, but I would like to see the Fanlore page folded into Help:User_page.
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There are only 5 tutorial pages. Two were already filled in, I filled in the Wikilinks one, one is still a stub, and one should probably be rewritten as step-by-step instructions. But the main problem with the tutorial is that no one knows it's there, so we can't judge how helpful it would be.
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And yeah, maybe we should add the tutorials to the side bar. Or into the getting started page. Which needs work, I think, too.
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