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Back in October I chose to sign up to Fanlore with Open ID to avoid dealing with yet another password, and picked my LJ address to authenticate me. However with the Fanlore discussion community being now here on DW it would make more sense to authenticate with my DW URL. Admittedly my username is the same across services so it doesn't matter that much for easy identification and transparency in discussions, but it seems neater somehow. Is there a way to change the URL, while making it clear to the wiki that this is the same person, and retaining the editing history and such?
So I started a page for RaceFail '09 today. The whole story is so sprawling that it's a bit intimidating for any one person to try to chronicle, but that's where I'm hoping many people together will be able to make relatively easy work of it. :-)
Anyway. If this is a subject in which you have any interest, please do add bits and pieces. Or feel free to comment on this post with thoughts or questions. My theory is that it's always easier to edit an existing page than to write a new one from scratch -- and that no one person should have to try to write this whole thing -- but if different people chime in with quotes and links and so forth, the page will grow itself.
Anyway. If this is a subject in which you have any interest, please do add bits and pieces. Or feel free to comment on this post with thoughts or questions. My theory is that it's always easier to edit an existing page than to write a new one from scratch -- and that no one person should have to try to write this whole thing -- but if different people chime in with quotes and links and so forth, the page will grow itself.
In order to get the widest possible fan contribution, we'd like to make editing fanlore as non-threatening as possible, and get our help resources up to snuff. To that end, we're attempting to get some screencasts made. Now, I can record a screencast, but when it comes to editing out all the pauses and jittering, and speeding up the typey-bits to make it not annoying to watch, I admit, I'm not so hot.
However, it occurs to me that this should be a fairly trivial exercise for some of the amazing vidders I know we have in the fan community.
We would like screencasts on, at minimum the two following subjects:
1) Getting a fanlore account! This is the first hurdle for new editors. A screencast should walk the viewer through getting an account, and let them know how to set up their OpenID, should they wish to add that.
2) Editing a new article! Want to start a new article? How do you do that? How do you make a wiki link, and add headings?
Additionally, if screencasts include a voice component, subtitles would be awesome, and make them more accessible.
If you'd like to make a screencast, or help with one, or suggest other topics that could be usefully screencast, please let me know!
However, it occurs to me that this should be a fairly trivial exercise for some of the amazing vidders I know we have in the fan community.
We would like screencasts on, at minimum the two following subjects:
1) Getting a fanlore account! This is the first hurdle for new editors. A screencast should walk the viewer through getting an account, and let them know how to set up their OpenID, should they wish to add that.
2) Editing a new article! Want to start a new article? How do you do that? How do you make a wiki link, and add headings?
Additionally, if screencasts include a voice component, subtitles would be awesome, and make them more accessible.
If you'd like to make a screencast, or help with one, or suggest other topics that could be usefully screencast, please let me know!
I have several codes which I'd like to give away - just comment and one shall be yours :-)
I still have a bunch (around 6 or so) and would be more than happy to give them to fellow Fanlore editors :) PM me with your email or just leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
I also have a bunch of Dreamwidth invite codes, and I'd love to give them to someome who's working (or will work!) on Fanlore. Comment here and I'll get you a code as soon as I can!
I've been wondering what to do with these, and spreading them out to the Fanlore community seems like a good answer. :) I've got five invite codes, if anyone needs one. Just drop a comment here with the email address you want to use to set up your account, or you can go to my Fanlore user page and click on "E-mail this user" in the Toolbox on the left to send me a message privately.
ETA:Four Three left!
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