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!


First up, here is a short blurb you can use — feel free to use your own words or additions, but in case you'd like something ready-made, here it is!

Fanlore is a wiki by and for fans focusing on fannish culture, history, and works -- any and all fans are welcome and encouraged to contribute! We value and seek out a plural point of view that acknowledges the diversity and richness of fannish experience. Please stop by and tell us about your corner of fandom!

That has some embedded links, but can be used with or without them. A coded version is available for copy/paste below if you want it with all the link code intact — simply select-all inside the textbox:

<a href="http://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page">Fanlore</a> is <a href="http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:About">a wiki by and for fans</a> focusing on fannish culture, history, and works -- any and all fans are welcome and encouraged to contribute! We value and seek out a <a href="http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:Plural_Point_of_View">plural point of view</a> that acknowledges the diversity and richness of fannish experience. <a href="http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:Portal">Please stop by</a> and tell us about your corner of fandom!

In addition, here are some links to help get people started!

• Main Page


• Create a Fanlore account!


• Fanlore:About — Basic information on Fanlore!


• Fanlore:Portal — The New Visitor Portal to help get you started as a visitor and editor


• Intro to Fanlore FAQ


• Plural Point of View — Introduction and explanation of our point of view policy


• Fanlore Policies


• What Fanlore is not — Including the lack of notability requirement, the difference between documenting canon and fandom, and other useful distinctions!

We hope this helps; good luck!

Comments

[mergatrude]

Hi! I'm one of the mods for ds_profiles, which is a community for profiling creators of fanworks in the Due South (and six degrees thereof) fandom. We create or update fanlore pages based on our profiles. Fanlore is \o/

[ira_gladkova]

Awesome, thank you so much! That sounds like a great community =D

[justira]

I asked for this entry and Fanlore blurb to be included in ff_press!

[rbarenblat]

I just invited a friend who's a filker to consider contributing something about his filksongs to the wiki. :-) We'll see if he decides to do so!

[ira_gladkova]

Oooh, thank you! =D