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I noticed that the Fanlore article is a bit dry. Since we've been working on pages about various OTW projects (Server Naming Festival, 2011 Board Elections), I thought now might be a good time to spiff up the page about Fanlore.
Ideas?
What was the idea behind creating Fanlore? The AO3 is pretty obvious--we own the servers, etc.--but why a wiki?
The conflict with the Fan History Wiki.
Various discussions about Fanlore policy, perhaps? Artwork. The long process of organizing categories.
Fanlore burnout. Criticisms of the wiki.
Fanlore being "less important" to people than the AO3.
Links to Fanlore squee posts.
What else?
Right now, there's a lot of factual info about the wiki, but nothing passionate about it.
Ideas?
What was the idea behind creating Fanlore? The AO3 is pretty obvious--we own the servers, etc.--but why a wiki?
The conflict with the Fan History Wiki.
Various discussions about Fanlore policy, perhaps? Artwork. The long process of organizing categories.
Fanlore burnout. Criticisms of the wiki.
Fanlore being "less important" to people than the AO3.
Links to Fanlore squee posts.
What else?
Right now, there's a lot of factual info about the wiki, but nothing passionate about it.
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Major wiki projects. By that I mean an editor picking a topic or fandom and really pushing it forward by creating a lot of pages about it. There are editors working on several projects and if people don't hang out on RecentChanges all the time, they probably don't know about them. Well, the zine project is hard to miss, but the Forever Knight pages or the Mary Renault pages (there are more pages about The Charioteer fanfiction than about Harry Potter fanfiction) are worth mentioning too.
I would say the conflict with Fan History Wiki was mostly a conflict with the OTW. Fanlore itself didn't even exist back then and it was the plan to create a wiki that caused the conflict.
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I remember a discussion about the meaning of and history of the term "multimedia" which might be interesting to mention - see Multimedia_(multiple_fandoms) vs Multimedia_(Multiple_Media), and an lj poll by iamsab. I think it's one of the earlier examples of fans from different backgrounds trying to organise the structure and content of the wiki in a way that's inclusive and clear.
Re major projects, I would add Frogspace and co's work on Merlin to the list!