Transferring Larger Amounts of Fanzine Data

[morgandawn]

We've been chatting with the Gardeners  about fanzine lists so rache suggested I post this here.

I and a few other fans are maintaining fanzine lists for archival purposes. We'd love to get the data into Fanlore but recently discovered that the Fanlore formatting and privacy rules will require that we redo entire lists (ex. fan names must be first name then last initial.). We're very sensitive to fannish privacy concerns and do not want to step on toes.

We have two suggestions - we create a new general page (ex: Due South Fanzines) and copy and paste the data we directly have. Fanlore can then recruit someone else to reformat the list to meet the fanlore requirements and add zine specific pages if they think it makes sense.

Or alternatively, Fanlore can find someone else to pull the info off our websites and.journals and move it there in the proper Fanlore format.

Normally we'd manage the transferring ourselves, but because Fanlore has their own format rules we cannot simultaneously keep the fanzine lists up to date and also reformat them. Rache thinks that the reformatting sounds like a great activity for Fanlore newbies to get involved with, so we're handing this off to anyone else who wants to help .

An example of lists with lots of data:

Starsky & Hutch
http://ckua-pepper.livejournal.com/tag/zines

Then there is this list (tables and covers)
Star Trek Zinedex
http://klhalliday.com/Zinedex/TitleIndex.htm

One with links and covers and tables
Due South
http://www.morgandawn.com/duesouthzines.htmI

I did a test copy and paste of my Due South fanzine list that is...workable, but omitts the links and the cover art.  But for a list like the SH or Star Trek, someone needs to help with reformatting and transfer.

Otherwise you end up with something that looks like this (edited to add: I am testing out the html-wiki conversion tool from here and it is much readable than the 'copy and paste method. We used the MediaWiki settings).

Comments

[rodo]

I have no idea how you formatted the entry, but the font is huge on my flist. Rich Text Editor, maybe?

[franzeska]

This is awesome! I'd love to help.

[morgandawn]

So far we have permission to transfer my lists and the SH list. Still waiting to hear back from the Zindex and the Star Wars sites. Personally, I;d want Karen to finish updating her list a bit more before transferring, but we'll have to discuss that.

When Pepper gets back, let's coordinate? my initial thoughts - get as much raw data moved over in bulk and then have people start creating fanzine entries/pages - this will set the stage later for uploading covers etc.

ps. can you send an e-mail to mdawn6@yahoo.com

[franzeska]

Sounds good to me.