What the Wiki Committee did in September

[tiyire]

September was a busy month for Fanlore! We started a new challenge, Stub September, and invited people to work on unfinished pages. Many thanks to our editors, who did fantastic work like they always do. As a result of discussions about the definition of a stub we created a new template, ExpandArticle, and in the process noticed that we could delete some that are no longer in use.

We held an editing chat on September 22 for editors to talk about Fanlore editing that was fun for everyone involved (we hope), and as usual we resolved to hold them more often.

An animated discussion arose around the question of how best to distinguish pages about podfic from pages about fic. While the debate was misrepresented in other places, the discussion on the Fanlore dreamwidth community was productive. We hope the solution is satisfying for everyone.

Spam-fighting, getting ready to make the forum public, and the mediawiki upgrade are among our ongoing efforts. The latter is almost ready and we hope to be done with it soon. The upgrade will come with some design changes because we are switching to a different default skin.

You can find the OTW newsletter for September here.

Comments

[cesy]

Thanks for these detailed updates - it's great to hear a bit more detail than is in the main OTW newsletter.

[tiyire]

Better late than never ;)

[mrs_potatohead]

Fanlore committee members, thank you for all that you do.

It would be much harder to accomplish what I do without your support and hard work. :-)

~ MPH

[tiyire]

Thanks, and thank you for your support and hard work :)