committee post: main page and tutorial update

[aethel]

The wiki committee has just updated the text on the front page. Check out the front page here. Please let us know what you think!

We've also updated the Tutorial with the basics of editing. Please take a look and let us know if it's clear/confusing/wrong/etc. (The help pages can be edited by regular users, so if you see a problem you know how to fix, go for it.) Also, if you've encountered other stumbling blocks to editing, and you can't find help pages to cover these topics, please let us know!

committee post: New Category Hierarchy

[aethel]

By request, we’re creating a new category called Chronology for articles that describe the history of a fandom or fan activity in chronological order. Although historical perspectives are a welcome addition to any Fanlore article, this category should be for articles that are exclusively focused on documenting changes or listing events over time (in paragraph form, in bullet point form, or in nifty chart form).

The category will be included in the recently created History template, so you may never need to manually add the category to an article. Articles with titles like “History of X Fandom” or “Timeline of Y Fandom” should generally get the history template and Chronology category.

In addition, Chronology will be the parent category for a new hierarchy: date categories! These categories will follow the pattern below:

Category:Chronology
...Category:Before 1900
...Category:20th Century
......Category:1960s
......Category:1970s
......Category:1980s
......Category:1990s
...Category:21st Century
......Category:2000s
.........Category:2004
.........etc.
......Category:2010s

For the purposes of this wiki, the 20th century is 1900-1999, the 1990s are 1990-1999, etc.

We will begin creating the century and decade categories in a few hours. Like with fandom categories, year categories will be created [by you] when the decade category becomes too large and there are enough pages for each year (10-15ish). Topics that span several years (such as Escapade)
should be given decade categories rather than every single year.

What kind of article should have a date category?

Only articles on topics that have well-defined dates should be included. That is, articles about fanworks, archives, websites, conventions, and other miscellaneous events. Fandoms should NOT be included.

Who will be adding pages to these new categories?

Uh, you will. So please let us know if you have questions or if there are any problems with the structure we outlined here! Or if there's ambiguity with what articles to include or what categories to give them, etc.