Fanzine Covers

[morgandawn]

I (and a few others) are keeping lists of fanzines. In fact we just sent off a message to the Fanlore 'gardeners' on how best to transfer the data to the Wiki.

But I have another question: covers. I am working with The Star Wars Collector's Bible and Star Trekindex to collect cover images from eBay listings. It would be too great an undertaking for one person to upload the covers, but I'd be happy to start sending them to Fanlore for archival purposes (and possibly even uploading). I also have some Due South covers, Starsky & Hutch and Supernatural covers. If there is interest, I can try to collect as many as possible if Fanlore sees a use for them.

On Behalf of Mrs. Potato Head: style sheets? a good model to follow?

[melina]

From Mrs. Potato Head:

I've pretty much dived in to Fanlore a few days ago and have been adding fanzines and their contents. I really, really hope I'm doing it right.

Is there a page that lays out how things are to be referred to? Example: multi-fandom/multimedia/multi-media? Or for fandoms: Man from U.N.C.L.E./Man From U.N.C.L.E./The Man from...? How about including "the" and "a" in fandoms and zine titles: The A-Team/A-Team? Is there a way to correct a page heading after one's searched it, and used the link to make a new page only to discover too late that not capitalizing correctly in a search or not using an exclamation point makes it look like two different entries? Is there a masterlist of authors and people who I can use full names before 1995? Is there a couple of "ideal" pages I can use as models?

I've got lots of questions and don't know who to ask!
Mrs. Potato Head

Transferring Larger Amounts of Fanzine Data

[morgandawn]

We've been chatting with the Gardeners  about fanzine lists so rache suggested I post this here.

I and a few other fans are maintaining fanzine lists for archival purposes. We'd love to get the data into Fanlore but recently discovered that the Fanlore formatting and privacy rules will require that we redo entire lists (ex. fan names must be first name then last initial.). We're very sensitive to fannish privacy concerns and do not want to step on toes.

We have two suggestions - we create a new general page (ex: Due South Fanzines) and copy and paste the data we directly have. Fanlore can then recruit someone else to reformat the list to meet the fanlore requirements and add zine specific pages if they think it makes sense.

Or alternatively, Fanlore can find someone else to pull the info off our websites and.journals and move it there in the proper Fanlore format.

Normally we'd manage the transferring ourselves, but because Fanlore has their own format rules we cannot simultaneously keep the fanzine lists up to date and also reformat them. Rache thinks that the reformatting sounds like a great activity for Fanlore newbies to get involved with, so we're handing this off to anyone else who wants to help .

An example of lists with lots of data:

Starsky & Hutch
http://ckua-pepper.livejournal.com/tag/zines

Then there is this list (tables and covers)
Star Trek Zinedex
http://klhalliday.com/Zinedex/TitleIndex.htm

One with links and covers and tables
Due South
http://www.morgandawn.com/duesouthzines.htmI

I did a test copy and paste of my Due South fanzine list that is...workable, but omitts the links and the cover art.  But for a list like the SH or Star Trek, someone needs to help with reformatting and transfer.

Otherwise you end up with something that looks like this (edited to add: I am testing out the html-wiki conversion tool from here and it is much readable than the 'copy and paste method. We used the MediaWiki settings).