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Sometimes when I'm editing on Fanlore, it can feel a bit like Rodney McKay is on every page. Now I like Rodney, and I know a lot of the parts he's played in fannish history. It's easiest to write from the perspective of the fandoms you are most familiar with, and sometimes that just means where you've been doing your reading.
For various reasons, the alignment of the stars maybe, a lot of the early work on Fanlore was done by SGA fans. Because of this, a lot of the pages that are about general fandom terms, the Glossary pages for example, are full of examples drawn from SGA.
I found myself doing this just today, using examples from SGA and SPN to describe the ways in which fans use tropes like De-aging or Genderswap. Frogspace came along and added some Merlin examples to the Genderswap page, and that was awesome.
It would be even more awesome if fans used their insider knowledge of other fandoms to flesh out some of those pages with fandom-specific examples. You can put more of your fandom on Fanlore in a lot of ways other than just updating the fandom page, and sometimes it's a bit less intimidating to just add a fanwork to a list or add a sentence to a page about a story trope than it is to tackle the whole fandom.
This is just my suggestion on a less obvious way you can bring your unique fandom knowledge to fanlore.
For various reasons, the alignment of the stars maybe, a lot of the early work on Fanlore was done by SGA fans. Because of this, a lot of the pages that are about general fandom terms, the Glossary pages for example, are full of examples drawn from SGA.
I found myself doing this just today, using examples from SGA and SPN to describe the ways in which fans use tropes like De-aging or Genderswap. Frogspace came along and added some Merlin examples to the Genderswap page, and that was awesome.
It would be even more awesome if fans used their insider knowledge of other fandoms to flesh out some of those pages with fandom-specific examples. You can put more of your fandom on Fanlore in a lot of ways other than just updating the fandom page, and sometimes it's a bit less intimidating to just add a fanwork to a list or add a sentence to a page about a story trope than it is to tackle the whole fandom.
This is just my suggestion on a less obvious way you can bring your unique fandom knowledge to fanlore.