Sphinx Install Complete

[meri_oddities]

A quick note to let everyone know that the Sphinx search engine has been installed at Fanlore and is ready for use.

If you have any issues send a message to the wiki committee at wiki [at] transformativeworks [dot] org.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the testing! We appreciate it!

six degrees of help pages

[aethel]

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.