Status of Fanwork Categories

[aethel]

Since response to the fanwork category proposal post was positive, we have started creating the proposed fanwork subcategories. So far, we have added:

* Zine Fandom
* Podfics
* Fanfiction
* Vids

and updated the corresponding templates. Now the Fanworks category contains only 348 pages, down from over 11,000! Check out the current Fanworks category.

The fanart categories haven't been created yet because we wanted to double check on what categories are needed. Because these categories would be added manually, and there are over 29,000 image files on Fanlore to sort through, we want to do it right the first time, if possible. So far, the proposed list includes:

* Category:Artworks
** Category:Zine Covers
** Category:Doujinshi Covers
** Category:Manips
** Category:Icons
** Category:Banners
** Category:Drawings

1. Are these good category names?
2. Anything missing?
3. Would zine covers with drawn artwork be given both the Zine Covers and Drawings categories?
4. Zine Covers needs to be further subdivied since there are so many examples on the wiki. (What is a useful way to do this? Fandom? Style? Decade? Do we want to distinguish between "art covers" and text-only covers?)
5. No one has requested this yet, but how about a "Calendars" category? There are quite a few articles about print calendars on the wiki.

Commenters on the last post also requested other templates and categories. So far, we have a template (but no category) for Template:FanFilm and related stuff. Also proposed:

*Filk
*Podcasts (needs a template first) new template
*Tape Zines (might have to be added manually?)

Regarding Filk, we have a filk album template (and an unused songbook template), but no dedicated categories other than Filk Music. We have a brand new filksong template that needs some feedback from filk experts. Do we want a new category like Filk Songs & Albums? Like this:
* Category:Filk Music (existing)
** Filk Songs & Albums (new)

Or do we want separate categories? Like this:

* Category:Filk Music (existing)
** Filk Songs (new)
** Filk Albums (new)

Comments

[turlough]

Hmmm, I have to say that I'm less than happy about the choice of "Manips" for what I presume will be all manner of works using already existing photos. While some are undoubtedly what I've seen called manips in fandoms like SGA and SPN - character photos that's been manipulated through the addition of unrelated photos (aka "his head is pasted on") - many of them aren't.

In the fandoms I hang out in (bandom and previously popslash) works like this or this or this, or what this person does are never, ever called "manips". (Manips, as I defined the term above, simply don't exist in these fandom.) I've seen some people call them "blends" but mostly they're just refered to by size, i.e. "banners" if they're medium/small and "wallpapers" if they're large enough to use as a computer background.

I'm afraid I don't have any concrete suggestions to offer of what to use instead. I mostly just wanted to make you aware that even basic terminology can differ quite radically between different fandoms.

[aethel]

Yeah, I wouldn't call those examples "manips" either. I think of manips as pastede on yay, plus The Theban Band's work. Maybe "photographic art"?

I think we should also have an Animated Gifs category, but that leaves the issue of still images. Hmm.

[ratcreature]

Photographic art sounds more like fans taking photographs to me. You could go with something descriptive, if clunky like "photograph-based digital art" or "photo editing". Some of these I think of just as "digital collage" but not all these designs are based on more than one photo/screen cap.