not a committee post: contemplates templates

[aethel]

Notes on a few Fanlore templates.

First off, I remember that someone asked years ago that the Fiction Writing category be removed from the Archive template since there are fannish archives of things other than fanfic. I think it's time to do something about this, and so far I've come up with a few possible solutions:

1. Create a new Template:ArchiveFiction and attach the Fiction Writing category. Then remove fiction category from Template:ArchiveProfile. Then fix every fiction archive page.

2. Create a new Template:ArchiveFiction and create another category to go with it--Fiction Archives--that will be a subcategory of Archives and Fiction Writing. Then fix every fiction archive page.

3. Remove Fiction Writing category from the existing archive template and don't add archives to the Fiction Writing category at all. Optional: we could make the Archives category a subcat of Fiction Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, Video, Audio, and Visual Art.

My favorite is #2, but of course there are archives that host multiple types of fanworks, so we'd have to manually add the Fiction Archives category to some pages (how many?).

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And then I had some thoughts on the Convention template and the Offline Spaces category. I also created a Sandbox notice--please let me know if it makes sense.

Meanwhile, Amy has been working some deep wiki mojo on whole classes of templates and has fixed up the RelatedLinks template.

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ETA May 19: Everyone seemed in favor of #3, so I removed "Fiction Writing" from the Archives template.

Comments

[onceamy]

I hope the new templates look OK! I'm starting work on bringing the new infobox into being usable (at the moment it works, but isn't very pretty).

I like option 3! It's the least work, but also has the problem of being perhaps too broad. I leave it to other wiki users to clinch the vote.

[msilverstar]

#3 seems most wiki-ish and least stressful to me.

[franzeska]

I like 3. When I'm looking for archives in Fanlore, I'm most often either looking up a specific thing I've already heard of or looking for archives qua archives. (Maybe because I want to know something about websites/trends/hubs of activity or something--the fact that they host fiction isn't really my primary concern, personally.)

I don't know how many archives host multiple types of fanwork. The multifandom archive page does have links to a lot of different ones though, so it might give some perspective. (Though that's assuming multi-fandom and single-fandom archives are equally likely to be multi-media, which is probably a poor assumption.)