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.

Comments

[franzeska]

That's really cool!

[aethel]

Hm, another way to get the count is to see how many pages use each kind of zine template, since a page should have only one infobox. I get...

219 Template:Zine
3858 Template:ZineAnthology
508 Template:ZineNewsletter
260 Template:ZineNonfiction
2850 Template:ZineNovel
67 Template:ZinePoetry
180 Template:ZineResource

So I get 7942, but there may be some zines left that still have the fanworks template. I spot another cleanup project :)