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New challenge: profile-a-comm!

The Pink Sparkly Hearts challenge is over! It's time for our next challenge...

Profile-A-Comm

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: pick a community that you belong to and create a page for it on Fanlore. You can use the community template to fill in the basic information; then the fun part, writing about the community and why it’s nifty keen. What are conversations like? Is it active or are posts sporadic? Has it changed over time? Tell us about it!

This challenge will run for roughly two weeks. The community template is provided below for your easy use. And feel free to drop a comment on this post to let us know what you're posting about!

{{stub}}
{{CommunityProfile
|name=
|dates=
|moderator=
|founder=
|type= (on livejournal, on dreamwidth, elsewhere...?)
|fandom=
|url=
}}

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What makes a community notable, though? Presumably you don't want a separate entry on every single Dreamwidth or LJ community.

Good question. Size and longevity of the community might be a good indication. Also, if it's mentioned on the wiki already.

But if you're a member of it and you love it, that should be good enough, I think.

This challenge also includes mailing lists, usenet, and discussion boards not on a journaling site, right?

There's a special template for usenet newsgroups here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:UsenetProfile

{{UsenetProfile
|name=
|dates=
|moderator=
|type=
|fandom=
|url=
}}

Oh, yes, that's an excellent point -- yes, of course, comms which are in places other than journaling sites, for sure! Thank you!

What's the best template for a non-internet community, like clubs? I could use the CommunityProfile--those are all relevant details, except that "moderator" is a bit odd to include--but it'd seem weird, and would likely confuse people.

Because, eep, LASFS doesn't have an entry. I don't actually feel remotely qualified to *add* an entry for LASFS, but hey, I'm a member ("Death will not release you! Even if you die!"); a decade and a half since I attended a meeting is irrelevant, right?

And if the challenge is really supposed to be for online communities, shrug, I can find one or two of those to add, too. Um. What would be the naming protocol for a community with the same name as an existing entry? For example,

filk. Should it be called "Filk (Livejournal)" or "Filk (LJ Community)"? "Filk (Livejournal community)" seems awfully *long.*

Is there a good naming protocol for online comms, many of which will just be named for their fandom or some element of it which might have its own page? A protocol for usenet groups--should they get their entire hierarchy name? (alt.tv.dinosaurs.barney.die.die.die seems a bit extensive for a wiki page. So do alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork and alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg.)

I think fan clubs would get Template:OrganizationCorporation.

I don't think there is a disambiguation standard for livejournal communities. I found two contradictory examples: Virgule (LiveJournal), McKay/Sheppard Slash (LJ community)

usenet groups have been getting the entire hierarchy name (and I'd love to see an entry called alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg). Check out the newsgroup category.

I'm trying to think of how to describe the .blank.blank.blank newsgroups; I think the Barney one was first, and there were at one point a whole cluster of them. (alt.alien.vampires.flonk.flonk.flonk was one. Which I was always afraid to actually look at; I just boggled at seeing it on the list I *could* subscribe to.)

I never actually looked at a.f.c.b.b.b either, but maybe this weekend I can do some searching for more of the collection & make basic stub posts for a whole bunch of them.