April Showers Opening Post 2015

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Help us wash away the winter - it's time for April Showers!

In the month of April we hope you'll help us spruce up Fanlore by dusting off neglected wiki entries.

Fanlore records decades of fannish activity, from the days before the internet all the way to current events shaping fandom. If you have old zines, or fond memories of a long-ago convention, write about them on Fanlore. If there's new drama in your fandom, or a new trend in fanart, write about those too! Fanlore is open to everyone, and we encourage everyone to edit it and add their own experiences. Fannish history is our history.

The OTW is also proud to be able to offer an archive for fanworks at Archive of Our Own and we invite you to take the time to post both new works and old works that are languishing in ancient blogs or buried in your harddrive. Add them to AO3 so other fans can enjoy them! You can even backdate them to show their original creation date, and use our pseud system to preserve old fandom aliases. If you're posting works, use the tag April Showers 2015 so that everyone can find them. Or, if there's a fanwork already on the archive that you think more people should see, bookmark it and add it to the April Showers Recs collection.

If you'd like to edit Fanlore pages, but you aren't sure how, don't panic! There will be an editing party in the Fanlore chatroom on Saturday, April 4th at 16:00 UTC (when is that in my timezone?). Come and ask questions, familiarise yourself with Fanlore, or just chat with other editors.

There will be a second chat towards the end of the month - keep an eye on this community for the exact date and time.

To help get you started, we're highlighting a different fandom every day via our twitter accounts; fanlore_news and ao3org. Follow us for a daily dose of fandom!