ruuger: Londo from Babylon 5 and the text: "And now for something completely different - a Centauri with seven tentacles" (And now for something completely differe)
Ruuger ([personal profile] ruuger) wrote in [community profile] fanlore2013-04-30 07:58 pm

Terminology question

I've been creating pages for fannish communities that I'm familiar with, and I've now hit a snag. What are communities like [livejournal.com profile] summer_of_spike or [community profile] seasonal_spuffy - where you claim a day and post fanworks of your choice on it - actually called (and which template should I use for them)? I've always called them love fests or seasonal communities, but is there some other name for them?

Also, are communities like this common outside Buffyverse?

(and hey, if anyone feels like joining me to fill in the gaps in Buffyverse, Babylon 5, and The X-Files... ;))
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[personal profile] morgandawn 2013-04-30 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Here is my best guess (and I am horrible at picking at which template to use, just a heads up):

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:JournalComm
"This template is for journal communities: online communities on services like LiveJournal, Journalfen, InsaneJournal, Dreamwidth, etc. This template automatically adds the article to the category Journaling Communites. Please manually add a fan activity subcategory (such as Fiction Writing or Discussion) if relevant.

For Challenges that have an associated community, use the Challenge template if your article is not primarily about the community."