New Challenge: Fanlore Valentines

[aethel]

Hello, everyone! The Wiki Committee is still in the process of collecting itself for the 2012 term, but esskay has suggested some excellent challenges for February. They were all so good, I couldn't pick just one. We now present....

Fanlore Valentines!

1. Look up the Fanlore article on a fanwork you love to see if any reviews of the work are quoted on the page. If not, express your love by finding a review and adding a brief quote (with link) to the page. (If Fanlore doesn't have a page for this fanwork at all, feel free to start the page. Tell us why you love it!)

2. What challenges, fests, gift exchanges, etc., are running right now? Check to see if Fanlore has articles about them. If the article exists, add up-to-date information; if the article doesn't exist, create it!

If these don't tickle your fancy, check out esskay's list of Valentine challenges. And you are always welcome to take up a previous challenge at any time.

Here are some resources to get you started:
Fanlore help page: how to start a new page
Fanlore help page on fanworks
See a list of all challenges documented on Fanlore.

Fanwork template:

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Challenge template:

{{Challenge
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Comments

[kass]

Yay!

I made a page for Astolat's Time in a Bottle, and added a quote about its awesomeness: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Time_in_a_Bottle

[kass]

Also added a couple of quotes from fannish reviews of Em Brunson's work: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Emily_Brunson

:-)

[espresso_addict]

Oh, I'm glad someone else is interpreting this to add quotations to author pages! (I don't feel in my fandoms the project is yet at the stage where adding individual works is productive.)

[aethel]

I didn't even think about adding quotes to author pages, so I'm glad someone thought of it. Of course, no matter what amount of coverage a fandom has, fanwork pages are always welcome, though I guess it does look strange when there's one fanwork page and nothing for the fan creator or the fandom.

[espresso_addict]

I think in fandoms where the coverage is limited it can look quite odd, and a bit exclusive, to have detailed fanwork pages when many many equally influential authors are not even mentioned. But I guess I should just add more and cavil less...

[kass]

...and stubbed out a page for cesperanza's Sentinel classic "The Object of My Erections" - http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Object_of_My_Erections - which now features a quote from a reader review as well.

:-)

[meg_r]

Made a page for Boston Marriage! Plus I've been poking about my delicious (it doesn't woooooork anymooooooooooooooooore D:) and trying to add a few favourites as examples to relevant pages.

[aethel]

Awesome! I am now bookmarking that story to read later :)

[espresso_addict]

As I mentioned above, I'm more comfortable editing author pages than adding pages for fanworks (though I'll have a think about the latter in future), so I've added brief reviews to Yahtzee's article for this challenge, so far.

By the way, is there a naming protocol for fanworks pages? It seems a bit odd to me to call a page on a specific story just by the title, when in many cases there will be many stories of that name.

[meg_r]

In general the naming convention is to just use the title; if there's more than one story with the same title it gets ([Fandom] story) or (story by [Author]) or something after it. It might seem awkward, but on the whole it's much less tiresome than naming every page [Title] by [Author], which we tried at the beginning. Here's the Naming Convention page, which doesn't actually seem to be very helpful on this point.

[aethel]

the information was actually on a different help page, so I changed the links around. I hope that's easier to find now.

[espresso_addict]

Thank you!

[espresso_addict]

Thanks! It does make it much more straightforward to link to works. I suppose it's only really an issue if name squatting becomes a problem (which happened a lot on the English Wikipedia).

[espresso_addict]

Ok, everyone inspired me to compile a fanworks page for Yahtzee's novel Phoenix Burning.