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Introductory chat to editing Fanlore

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[personal profile] helkalantto
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 11:59 pm
Do you edit Fanlore or would you like to do so? Now is the time to learn how. The OTW's Wiki-committee will host an introductory chat to editing Fanlore. The chat is aimed at both current and new editors.

The chat will be held on Saturday May 28 at 4 a.m. UTC (what time is it in my timezone?) in OTW's public chatroom on Campfire. The chatroom can be accessed at https://fanarchive.campfirenow.com/e79cc

Fanlore, a fandom wiki, is devoted to preserving the history of transformative fanworks and the fandoms from which they have arisen.
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committee post: Category proposal

aethel: (boots [by cimorene])
[personal profile] aethel
Saturday, May 21st, 2011 04:58 pm
The Fanlore wiki committee would like to thank everyone who's participated in our recent conversation about categories and anime / manga / related fandoms. Several commentors on that thread sparked the following idea (especially branchandroot -- thanks, branchandroot!), and we'd like to know what you think about it.

The idea is this: what if we remove all of the format categories, and replace them with a flat, non-hierarchical list of fandom categories? ( long explanation, with a few small graphics )

EDIT June 23: See the revised proposal here
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committee post: Seeking a few good anime and manga fans!

rbarenblat: OTW logo. (otw)
[personal profile] rbarenblat
Monday, May 16th, 2011 11:12 am
The Fanlore wiki committee has been brainstorming this year about outreach to different fan communities, especially fan communities which are unrepresented or under-represented on Fanlore. Anime, manga, and related communities are an area where we’d like to do some outreach.

Before we really dive in to trying to spread the word about Fanlore in various anime and manga communities, we want to make sure that we’ve created a good wiki structure in which fans can add pages. Here are the category pages for anime and manga as things stand now:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Anime
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Manga

We probably need to reexamine how the above format categories are assigned to fandom pages. Do we want anime movies to be in the Film category? Anime/Manga may also need a separate Fandom by Source Community category (and what should we call it?). One issue we’ve become aware of is that the terms “anime” and “manga” may exclude similar material created in countries other than Japan (manhua in China, for example). We’re not sure what the right answers are. Here are a few ideas:

Option 1: Merge the Anime category with Cartoons and the Manga category with Comics.

Anime + Cartoons → Cartoons
Manga + Comics → Comics

Option 2: Create a new category, Animation, for the combined Anime and Cartoons categories. Merge the Manga category with Comics.

Anime + Cartoons → Animation
Manga + Comics → Comics

Option 3:
? something we haven’t even thought of yet!

We’re hoping for a system that will accommodate many needs, including those of manhua, manhwa, and a variety of animation and comics fandoms from around the world. If you have knowledge in these areas, we definitely want to hear from you! We hope to find a few fans who are excited about the prospect of chronicling and preserving anime or manga fandoms and their histories, who can help us 1) figure out how best to structure this corner of the wiki and 2) reach out to anime and manga communities for more participation once we have a good structure in place.

Might you be that person? Let us know by dropping a comment on this post, or contact us using our contact form. And please feel free to signal-boost this post on your own journal or in the fannish spaces you frequent. Thanks!

Edited to add: stay tuned -- a new post is coming from the Fanlore wiki committee which contains a new proposal for how to handle categories on the wiki, based in large part on response to this post. We've made a follow-up post, which is here: Category proposal.

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not a committee post: contemplates templates

aethel: (morgana [by pentapus])
[personal profile] aethel
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 11:32 am
Notes on a few Fanlore templates.

First off, I remember that someone asked years ago that the Fiction Writing category be removed from the Archive template since there are fannish archives of things other than fanfic. I think it's time to do something about this, and so far I've come up with a few possible solutions:

1. Create a new Template:ArchiveFiction and attach the Fiction Writing category. Then remove fiction category from Template:ArchiveProfile. Then fix every fiction archive page.

2. Create a new Template:ArchiveFiction and create another category to go with it--Fiction Archives--that will be a subcategory of Archives and Fiction Writing. Then fix every fiction archive page.

3. Remove Fiction Writing category from the existing archive template and don't add archives to the Fiction Writing category at all. Optional: we could make the Archives category a subcat of Fiction Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, Video, Audio, and Visual Art.

My favorite is #2, but of course there are archives that host multiple types of fanworks, so we'd have to manually add the Fiction Archives category to some pages (how many?).

***

And then I had some thoughts on the Convention template and the Offline Spaces category. I also created a Sandbox notice--please let me know if it makes sense.

Meanwhile, Amy has been working some deep wiki mojo on whole classes of templates and has fixed up the RelatedLinks template.

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ETA May 19: Everyone seemed in favor of #3, so I removed "Fiction Writing" from the Archives template.
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New challenge: Red Print

onceamy: Nothing special; just a pixelated rainbow. (Default)
[personal profile] onceamy
Friday, May 6th, 2011 03:56 pm
Thanks to all who contributed to our Examples Galore challenge! We really appreciate it :) Remember, you are always welcome to return to the an older challenge at a later date should you be inspired to do so!

Your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look up your favorite fandoms on Fanlore, and when you run into a thicket of red words (which means pages are waiting to be created), click on something you can’t believe no one’s written about yet!

You can also find a list of red links (pages that are linked to, but not created yet) at Special:WantedPages.

As always, have fun editing!
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not a committee post: AMVs

aethel: (holmes shadow)
[personal profile] aethel
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 11:39 pm
The other day I was looking at the Anime Music Video article on Fanlore, and facetofcathy suggested bringing it to the attention of the dw comm. Basically, the AMV article contains some interesting stuff, but could always use more, and I get the feeling that it's written at least partly from a vidder perspective. It would be great if AMV fans could review the page, make edits there or just drop a comment here with links, corrections, or their own perspectives. Some sections on the page that could use expansion include "Notable AMVs" (external links to AMVs would be nice; EVEN BETTER would be internal links to new Fanlore pages about AMVs*) and "Contests" (which looks to have been abandoned mid-sentence). A new section to list popular AMV forums, websites, mailing lists, lj comms, etc. would also be helpful. And other stuff I can't even dream of because I don't know enough about AMVs!


*Speaking of fanworks pages, we've got an infobox template for vids, but not for AMVs. Would AMVs need different/more/fewer fields? I can make an AMV template if I know what to put in it.

ETA:An Anime_Music_Video category and template have been created.

Final April Showers Lists

onceamy: Nothing special; just a pixelated rainbow. (OTW-2)
[personal profile] onceamy
Friday, April 29th, 2011 04:16 pm
The last of the April Showers fandoms are up! Sorry about the delay in posting them! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

Here are the featured fandoms:



If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org.

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!
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committee post: New Category Hierarchy

aethel: (hawking smart [by librarianstash])
[personal profile] aethel
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 02:27 pm
By request, we’re creating a new category called Chronology for articles that describe the history of a fandom or fan activity in chronological order. Although historical perspectives are a welcome addition to any Fanlore article, this category should be for articles that are exclusively focused on documenting changes or listing events over time (in paragraph form, in bullet point form, or in nifty chart form).

The category will be included in the recently created History template, so you may never need to manually add the category to an article. Articles with titles like “History of X Fandom” or “Timeline of Y Fandom” should generally get the history template and Chronology category.

In addition, Chronology will be the parent category for a new hierarchy: date categories! These categories will follow the pattern below:

Category:Chronology
...Category:Before 1900
...Category:20th Century
......Category:1960s
......Category:1970s
......Category:1980s
......Category:1990s
...Category:21st Century
......Category:2000s
.........Category:2004
.........etc.
......Category:2010s

For the purposes of this wiki, the 20th century is 1900-1999, the 1990s are 1990-1999, etc.

We will begin creating the century and decade categories in a few hours. Like with fandom categories, year categories will be created [by you] when the decade category becomes too large and there are enough pages for each year (10-15ish). Topics that span several years (such as Escapade)
should be given decade categories rather than every single year.

What kind of article should have a date category?

Only articles on topics that have well-defined dates should be included. That is, articles about fanworks, archives, websites, conventions, and other miscellaneous events. Fandoms should NOT be included.

Who will be adding pages to these new categories?

Uh, you will. So please let us know if you have questions or if there are any problems with the structure we outlined here! Or if there's ambiguity with what articles to include or what categories to give them, etc.
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committee post: main page and tutorial update

aethel: (xena and argo)
[personal profile] aethel
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 01:56 pm
The wiki committee has just updated the text on the front page. Check out the front page here. Please let us know what you think!

We've also updated the Tutorial with the basics of editing. Please take a look and let us know if it's clear/confusing/wrong/etc. (The help pages can be edited by regular users, so if you see a problem you know how to fix, go for it.) Also, if you've encountered other stumbling blocks to editing, and you can't find help pages to cover these topics, please let us know!
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April Showers Week Two

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[personal profile] rbarenblat
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 12:11 pm
As April Showers rolls along, the second six fandoms have all been revealed! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

Here's the list of this week's featured fandoms; check the infoboxes for the corresponding Memories subpages. Some fandoms pages may only be stubs and not have Memories subpages yet — they're just begging to be fleshed out! =D

* The Losers (AO3 Tag)

* Black Butler (AO3 Tag)

* Johnny's Entertainment RPF (AO3 Tag)

* Xena (AO3 Tag)

* Jane Austen (AO3 Tag)

* Final Fantasy (AO3 Tag)


If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org.

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!
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New Challenge: Examples Galore!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 03:32 pm
Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed to the most excellent Women Characters Challenge! There was an amazing outpouring of contributions — too many to even know where to begin highlighting all these incredibly women, their fandoms, and the contributors who wrote about them; check the comments on that challenge post to get a sampling of the great additions! Remember, you're always welcome return to a challenge, so come back and talk about women characters anytime!

For now, it's time for our new challenge:

Examples Galore!

In keeping with April Showers, let's expand the range of examples on Fanlore! A lot of the examples given for fannish tropes and genres documented on Fanlore are fanworks from just a few fandoms. Find a trope or genre you like and add a link to a fanwork from your fandom. April Showers fandoms (first six already available, next group of six soon to come!) and all other fandoms welcome — just expand, expand, expand!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through April 25; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( Resources for adding trope/genre examples! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!
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April Showers - Group 1 - May It Pour!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Thursday, April 7th, 2011 06:40 pm
As April Showers rolls along, the first six fandoms have all been revealed! We invite you to tell us your history, your stories; share your memories and experiences; preserve your culture — in these fandoms or in any others! Check out the April Showers challenge tag on the AO3 for inspiration on other fandoms to contribute to — or, if you don't see your fandoms there yet, all the more reason to share!

The fandoms highlighted so far as listed below; check the infoboxes for the corresponding Memories subpages. Some fandoms pages may only be stubs and not have Memories subpages yet — they're just begging to be fleshed out! =D


If you're not sure where to start, check out our New Visitor Portal! It will guide you through getting an account, Fanlore policies, and wiki editing.

Remember, you can follow each fandom as it's highlighted on the AO3 Twitter: ao3org, and don't forget to check out AO3's update on their side of April Showers!

As always, you are totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions. Happy editing!
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April Showers on Fanlore and the AO3!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 09:44 am
Happy April, everyone! This month, Fanlore and our sister project, the Archive of Our Own, are hosting a joint challenge: April Showers!

On the AO3, users are invited to import their older works: every day of April, a different fandom will be featured, focusing on fandoms with a sizable presence outside the AO3. Check out the AO3 news post for more info on the AO3 side of the challenge!

On Fanlore, contributors are invited to play along and preserve the fannish history and culture of those fandoms! Document the works you uploaded, or record your memories and reminiscences! Talk about the communities you used to be part of (or are still going strong!), the archives and sites and challenges and cons; create profiles for the fans who made an impact on you; revisit fandom debates; or just add whatever tidbits you can think of in that fandom about characters, ships, other fanworks — whatever fannish history and culture you want to share!

Fandoms will be featured in groups of six, one per day. At the end of each group, we'll post to this community with a list of the fandoms that have been featured and resources to help you work on them. We'll be making oral history subpages for each featured fandom, ready and waiting for your memories!

If you'd like to follow the fandoms as they're featured each day, check out the @ao3org Twitter account for daily tweets highlighting each fandom!

You're also welcome to work on any other fandoms in the spirit of April Showers — the more the merrier!

Watch this space for updates; we're looking forward to hearing from you!
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New Challenge: Women Characters!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Monday, March 28th, 2011 08:16 pm
Thank you to everyone who spread the word for our 5 Things Challenge! Some of the contributions included F.L.A.R.E. and ConFrancisco — so awesome to see more con stuff on Fanlore; keep it up folks! Remember, you're always welcome return to a challenge anytime!

For now, it's time for our new challenge!

Women Characters Challenge

As the observation of Women’s History Month in many parts of the world wraps up, why not give one last hurrah to the amazing women in our favourite canons? Tell us all about your fannish experiences with women characters — the women themselves, the relationships they’re in (het, lesbian, canonical, fannish, whatever!), the fanworks they star in — whatever you can think of! Stub out pages, or add a sprinkle of information on an existing page — let’s show how much we love these amazing women!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through April 11; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( Resources for character, ship, and fanwork pages/editing! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!
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Love icons? Upload one for the Fanlore Icon article

sherrold: Rse from Dr Who, smiling and full of love (Default)
[personal profile] sherrold
Monday, March 21st, 2011 03:08 pm
Love Icons -- sure, we (almost) all do!

And yet, the Icon article at Fanlore is a sad stub of an article.

I recently read a post by yourlibrarian that was a class presentation on icons, here:
http://yourlibrarian.dreamwidth.org/269539.html, and it made me realize all the Fanlore article could be.

It's possible that anyone looking at the article is just daunted by the problem of finding characteristic icons, getting permission, and uploading them -- which is why I'm posting.

If we each uploaded one of our own/one that we had permission for (using categories already in the article, categories in yourlibrarian's article, or new categories altogether), it would be awesome in no time.

Icon article:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Icons

And plenty of other articles could be cheered up by the addition of an icon or three...

(Not a mod; not a gardener; not a formal member of Fanlore in any way.)

New Challenge: 5 Things!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Monday, March 14th, 2011 10:14 pm
Thank you to everyone who spread the word for our Tell a Friend Challenge! You are always welcome to continue promoting Fanlore and can use the resources in that challenge post anytime!

Now it's time for our next challenge — one we hope is friendly to both newer and veteran contributors =D

5 Things Challenge

Pick a page - stub or not! - of a fandom, character, relationship, trope, person, or anything else at Fanlore. Add five details to it, large or small - bullet-point lists or full paragraphs, whatever you can think of!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know what you've added, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through March 28; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

( A few resources to help you get started! )

Please do spread the word about this challenge if you're so inclined, and have fun!
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Non-ficcish, non-zineish topics

elf: Life's a die, and then you bitch. (Gamer Geek)
[personal profile] elf
Monday, March 7th, 2011 08:16 am
I've been pondering how best to add topics that have nothing to do with fanfic, and don't fit into fanfic-esque tropes like zines. A lot of these are gaming-related (tabletop RPG, mostly, but some tabletop wargaming); some are... other.

( Read more... )

Process of a Fanlore Entry

elf: Fanlore: IM IN UR WIKI FIXIN UR STUBS (Fanlore Wiki)
[personal profile] elf
Sunday, March 6th, 2011 11:18 am
I decided I wanted to add a page for Filthy Pierre's Microfilk. What is, you might ask, FPMicrofilk? It's a zine. Of sorts. A collection of filksongs, distributed in the East Coast area (and more, but mostly easty-coasty regions; I've never seen one). It's 63 pages long, on legal-sized paper, in teeny-tiny type, crammed as many words as can possibly fit on the page (extra verses added sideways, handwritten notes in spots), sometimes a dozen songs on a page, with a 13-page index (legal-sized) by tune, title, subject, and author. Also tiny. And complicated.

Makes sense? No? 6mb scanned version available at http://www.floatingfilk.com/mp3/microfilk.pdf. Go boggle. And then come back for the 2000-word Fanlore entry walkthrough.

( What I know/Background Info )

Five things. If that's enough for a fanfic, it's enough for a Fanlore stub, especially since I can give a link to the digital copy & a partial index. (Even less than that is enough for a Fanlore stub; if I could just say, "there's this thing; here's a link," Fanlore wants that.) People who've actually seen & filked from the original could then come in and add more details; people who've never heard of it would then know it exists. Existed. Whatever.

( Making the entry: Getting Started )

( Making the entry: Content )

( Optional Extra Work: Adding images )

( Quick Overview: you can skip all that and just start here )

Number of zines?

morgandawn: (Ariel Yes?)
[personal profile] morgandawn
Monday, February 28th, 2011 10:38 pm
I wanted to get a rough count of the zines entered on Fanlore. The Fanlore categories went  though a recent revision, so I could use help checking my methodology.

My final total is 8250 (rounding up)

I used this Category as a starting point.

Anthology Zines  = 3888
Club Zines = 233
Non-fiction Zines = 458
Newsletters & Letterzines =  526
Resource Zines = 183
Novel zines = 2851
Poetry Zines = 109

The challenge is that a few zines have overlapping categories and a few do not. My brain keeps reaching for a simpler category system with just two overarching zine categories: Fiction and Non-Fiction and which then spins off sub-categories (newsletters, resource zines, club zines inside Non-Fiction and Anthologies, Novels and Poetry inside Fiction).  That way you'd only need to look at Fiction and Non-Fiction to come up with the total.

In any event, 8250 is what I was able to come up with.

New Challenge: Introduce a Friend!

[personal profile] ira_gladkova
Monday, February 28th, 2011 03:25 pm
Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Call for Challenge Ideas and for all contributions to Share the Love. Pages created or updates for the Share the Love challenge include Nickey Barnard, Penny Dreadful, Renay, Seventhe, Chaosraven, and KJ — don't hesitate to keep contributing and making your friends' contributions to fandom known! We also had some great challenge ideas — in fact, we're using one of the right now!

Introduce a Friend!

Promote Fanlore participation to your fannish friends! Fanlore benefits most from multiple perspectives, and our contributors are our best advocates. Tell a friend about Fanlore, and encourage them to join in and document their particular corner of fandom, or to add another perspective on existing pages!

Please do feel free to drop a comment letting us know any particular fans, newsletters, or communities that you've alerted, or to ask any questions you may have! This challenge will last through March 14; the clock starts now: ready — set — go!

If you're not sure where to begin, you can always point your friends to this very entry — we're providing a list of links, as well as a short blurb suitable for submission to fan newsletters or as a short community promo. It's all behind the cut!

( Promotional text, links, and resources! )
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