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fanlore2011-05-16 11:12 am
rbarenblat) wrote in fanlore2011-05-16 11:12 am
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committee post: Seeking a few good anime and manga fans!
The Fanlore wiki committee has been brainstorming this year about outreach to different fan communities, especially fan communities which are unrepresented or under-represented on Fanlore. Anime, manga, and related communities are an area where we’d like to do some outreach.
Before we really dive in to trying to spread the word about Fanlore in various anime and manga communities, we want to make sure that we’ve created a good wiki structure in which fans can add pages. Here are the category pages for anime and manga as things stand now:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Anime
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Manga
We probably need to reexamine how the above format categories are assigned to fandom pages. Do we want anime movies to be in the Film category? Anime/Manga may also need a separate Fandom by Source Community category (and what should we call it?). One issue we’ve become aware of is that the terms “anime” and “manga” may exclude similar material created in countries other than Japan (manhua in China, for example). We’re not sure what the right answers are. Here are a few ideas:
Option 1: Merge the Anime category with Cartoons and the Manga category with Comics.
Anime + Cartoons → Cartoons
Manga + Comics → Comics
Option 2: Create a new category, Animation, for the combined Anime and Cartoons categories. Merge the Manga category with Comics.
Anime + Cartoons → Animation
Manga + Comics → Comics
Option 3:
? something we haven’t even thought of yet!
We’re hoping for a system that will accommodate many needs, including those of manhua, manhwa, and a variety of animation and comics fandoms from around the world. If you have knowledge in these areas, we definitely want to hear from you! We hope to find a few fans who are excited about the prospect of chronicling and preserving anime or manga fandoms and their histories, who can help us 1) figure out how best to structure this corner of the wiki and 2) reach out to anime and manga communities for more participation once we have a good structure in place.
Might you be that person? Let us know by dropping a comment on this post, or contact us using our contact form. And please feel free to signal-boost this post on your own journal or in the fannish spaces you frequent. Thanks!
Edited to add:stay tuned -- a new post is coming from the Fanlore wiki committee which contains a new proposal for how to handle categories on the wiki, based in large part on response to this post. We've made a follow-up post, which is here: Category proposal.
Before we really dive in to trying to spread the word about Fanlore in various anime and manga communities, we want to make sure that we’ve created a good wiki structure in which fans can add pages. Here are the category pages for anime and manga as things stand now:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Anime
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Manga
We probably need to reexamine how the above format categories are assigned to fandom pages. Do we want anime movies to be in the Film category? Anime/Manga may also need a separate Fandom by Source Community category (and what should we call it?). One issue we’ve become aware of is that the terms “anime” and “manga” may exclude similar material created in countries other than Japan (manhua in China, for example). We’re not sure what the right answers are. Here are a few ideas:
Option 1: Merge the Anime category with Cartoons and the Manga category with Comics.
Anime + Cartoons → Cartoons
Manga + Comics → Comics
Option 2: Create a new category, Animation, for the combined Anime and Cartoons categories. Merge the Manga category with Comics.
Anime + Cartoons → Animation
Manga + Comics → Comics
Option 3:
? something we haven’t even thought of yet!
We’re hoping for a system that will accommodate many needs, including those of manhua, manhwa, and a variety of animation and comics fandoms from around the world. If you have knowledge in these areas, we definitely want to hear from you! We hope to find a few fans who are excited about the prospect of chronicling and preserving anime or manga fandoms and their histories, who can help us 1) figure out how best to structure this corner of the wiki and 2) reach out to anime and manga communities for more participation once we have a good structure in place.
Might you be that person? Let us know by dropping a comment on this post, or contact us using our contact form. And please feel free to signal-boost this post on your own journal or in the fannish spaces you frequent. Thanks!
Edited to add:
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I'm already aware that the board had secret talks about it. Your dodging my question is informative only in unintended and unfavorable ways, because I'm left to speculate that perhaps you didn't make a decision at all, or that you're not willing to be transparent at least on a personal level. That fosters no trust with me.
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I'm not comfortable sharing what I said in our closed sessions because my comments were part of a broader conversation, a conversation which was presumed by all parties to be confidential. These weren't 'secret meetings' -- they were conversations between the board and a variety of org staffers who held a variety of passionate (and contradictory) opinions on how we should handle this situation once we realized that it was going to be contentious and that feelings were going to be hurt no matter which decision we made.
I stand behind the board's decision, and I ask you -- and everyone reading this -- to believe that we were doing our best to honor a variety of different needs in a difficult situation and that we take the org's commitment to diversity seriously.
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