Excellent thoughts, thank you! Re: community, we have an advantage in that many Animanga editors on fanlore (and editors working on other East Asian media) have met in fannish contexts before, which is fabulous, because it makes for a friendly, relaxed atmosphere that will hopefully feel inviting.
I agree 100% on the easy intro. A tutorial, even, perhaps? I think there are some clearer materials now than when I started, but offering to proofread articles for wikicode and maybe even doing chats where new editors can ask questions could be helpful. The curent gardeners and committee have been known to do those things, too. (And I do like the forum idea - a lot of people are comfortable in a forum environment, while they may find wikis a little intimidating still.)
I'm not sanguine of my ability to think of all the possible categories fans might want to talk about, but we could definitely brainstorm as many as possible. Are there any categories you'd like to add to the list now? I think it's impossible to get everything into a single map (100+ canons already, and that could grow exponentially, not to mention fandom itself), but we could at least link to categories, lists, and other pages that make it clear what's present and what's missing.
I think Wikia beats Wikipedia in 4 ways:
Clear goals for what needs to be added. (Wikipedia's goals are high-level, and it takes a while to dig down into the guts.)
Casual language.
Small groups of editors that get to know each other quickly.
Clear, simple organization (advantages of small size and of pre-created structure - Fanlore does not have this advantage right now, but a pan-fandom Animanga "map" would probably help)
I think we could capitalize on the first 3 and mitigate the last one with careful attention.
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I agree 100% on the easy intro. A tutorial, even, perhaps? I think there are some clearer materials now than when I started, but offering to proofread articles for wikicode and maybe even doing chats where new editors can ask questions could be helpful. The curent gardeners and committee have been known to do those things, too. (And I do like the forum idea - a lot of people are comfortable in a forum environment, while they may find wikis a little intimidating still.)
I'm not sanguine of my ability to think of all the possible categories fans might want to talk about, but we could definitely brainstorm as many as possible. Are there any categories you'd like to add to the list now? I think it's impossible to get everything into a single map (100+ canons already, and that could grow exponentially, not to mention fandom itself), but we could at least link to categories, lists, and other pages that make it clear what's present and what's missing.
I think Wikia beats Wikipedia in 4 ways:
I think we could capitalize on the first 3 and mitigate the last one with careful attention.