New Challenge: Introduce a Friend!

[ira_gladkova]

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Call for Challenge Ideas and for all contributions to Share the Love. Pages created or updates for the Share the Love challenge include Nickey Barnard, Penny Dreadful, Renay, Seventhe, Chaosraven, and KJ — don't hesitate to keep contributing and making your friends' contributions to fandom known! We also had some great challenge ideas — in fact, we're using one of the right now!

Introduce a Friend!

Promote Fanlore participation to your fannish friends! Fanlore benefits most from multiple perspectives, and our contributors are our best advocates. Tell a friend about Fanlore, and encourage them to join in and document their particular corner of fandom, or to add another perspective on existing pages!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know any particular fans, newsletters, or communities that you've alerted, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through March 14; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

If you're not sure where to begin, you can always point your friends to this very entry — we're providing a list of links, as well as a short blurb suitable for submission to fan newsletters or as a short community promo. It's all behind the cut!

( Promotional text, links, and resources! )

Number of zines?

[morgandawn]

I wanted to get a rough count of the zines entered on Fanlore. The Fanlore categories went  though a recent revision, so I could use help checking my methodology.

My final total is 8250 (rounding up)

I used this Category as a starting point.

Anthology Zines  = 3888
Club Zines = 233
Non-fiction Zines = 458
Newsletters & Letterzines =  526
Resource Zines = 183
Novel zines = 2851
Poetry Zines = 109

The challenge is that a few zines have overlapping categories and a few do not. My brain keeps reaching for a simpler category system with just two overarching zine categories: Fiction and Non-Fiction and which then spins off sub-categories (newsletters, resource zines, club zines inside Non-Fiction and Anthologies, Novels and Poetry inside Fiction).  That way you'd only need to look at Fiction and Non-Fiction to come up with the total.

In any event, 8250 is what I was able to come up with.