Wiki committee's monthly report for April

[cin1607]

Wiki has had a very busy month! As most people already know, the Wiki committee welcomed new member aethel, who has been doing amazing work with our help pages. We have posted two new policies. The Fandoms as Category Policy is now final, and we have begun the process of creating the new categories and links to go along with that. The Image Policy has been posted as a draft on the wiki and here for comments for the last week. We've received a ton of good feedback on the policy and it's now headed back to the drawing board for revisions based on that feedback.

Story Tropes

[facetofcathy]

I posted my ideas for the story tropes page on the Fanlore Sandbox.  Have a look, make changes or comments as you like, and if we can agree on a new structure for the page, we can then discuss potential name changes.  The original story trope discussion in this community is here.

I would prefer comments be consolidated on Fanlore itself for this, as this is primarily a discussion of coding the new arrangement.  I will be around later today to see what ideas people have, but anyone is welcome to go and rework the page--we can always use the history tab to look at previous versions.

Filking at Fanlore

[elf]

In contemplation of facetofcathy's recent entry about Story Tropes, I've been thinking about "filk tropes." Except that, in filk, we don't call them "tropes." They get called genres. Or categories. Or something else. Or they don't get called anything; you just have a filksing where one song is similar to the next in some way that nobody bothers to define. And they don't parse into the story tropes categories well at all. You *could* sort filk into those categories--but that's not how filkers sort them, and it'd be kinda wrong to force them into those kinds of categories. (Gamers don't sort their games into "H/C" and "Angst" and "crack" either.)

Some *other* time I may contemplate tweaking the gaming pages at Fanlore. When I'm drugged, maybe. Because, while I'm a gamer of omfsm over thirty years, it's all pretty much tabletop RPGs with pencils & dice; I am oblivious to most of the stuff that gets called "gaming" now. (I have some familiarity with tabletop wargames, too, and a longstanding antipathy for hex maps with terrain modifiers.)

( This is about filk, not gaming. )