skaredykat: (canon error apply fanfic)
skaredykat ([personal profile] skaredykat) wrote in [community profile] fanlore 2011-05-22 05:49 am (UTC)

Yes please to this and what [personal profile] elf suggested.

I very much want to be able to find myself on a page for say, "Frankenstein (2011)", see that it is categorized as "Theater" and as "Frankenstein" so I can click on either category and in one case get a list of all other fandoms that are categorized as "Theater" and by clicking the other category tag get a list that shows all other fandoms (Litfic fandom, film adaptations including individual versions, Marvel comics adaptation, etc.) categorized as "Frankenstein".

Overall I'm in favor of adding more categories, not having fewer, for any page where it's relevant, and seeing them be treated more like AO3 wuzzles/tags (upgrading the database functionality if need be) so categories can be searched on and filtered in various ways to increase the wiki's usefulness by making it easier for it to return both richer/wider and more narrowly focused search-results. (Which systems like library cataloging software tend to do by adding more keywords to each entry.)

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