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

[kylara]

I feel very iffy about the Doujinshi Covers category. It'll be a decent amount of work to re-categorize those images, and it's a bit more work for me when uploading new images. I don't mind that so much, but I want to be sure it's worth it -- and I guess I just don't really see it's purpose.

Would this remove the covers from the Doujinshi category (and its subcategories), or would these images be categorized in both? If the purpose is to categorize the images separately and remove them from the Doujinshi category, then maybe a more general category to take all the doujinshi sample images would be better -- but I'm not sure even that's necessary. Right now, doujinshi covers and sample images get moved into doujinshi subcategories based on fandoms, so they're not overwhelming the Doujinshi category or its subcategories. If it's just to categorize them under art, then again I'm not sure why it's just the covers and not sample images as well -- but even some of the covers are just text, not visual artwork.

About clearing up categories to make them more browseable, this has also been brought up for the Vids and Doujinshi categories. When a page is moved into a subcategory, it's not removed from the main category because the template automatically adds the main category, so pages build up in the main category. I think this is something that should be looked into as well. It's not a pressing issue yet, but as the categories continue to grow it might be. The Doujinshi category has nearly 800 pages.

[aethel]

We could have a general "Doujinshi Art" category if that works better. Doujinshi art would be removed from the Doujinshi category, so we'd end up with a hierarchy like this:

Category:Fanworks
*Category:Doujinshi
**Category:Doujinshi Art
*Category:Artworks
**Category:Doujinshi Art

I am envisioning the wank if we create a zine art category and no doujinshi art category, though I guess that's not enough of a justification for the extra work. Hmmm.

As for the template/category issue, we could start creating fandom-specific templates for the largest fandom subcategory/fanwork types and see how it goes. One benefit is that we could tailor the fandom-specific templates to automatically include useful links, and we could pre-populate the "fandom" field.