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Stub September: come and join the party! 🎉

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Thursday, September 15th, 2022 11:44 pm
 

This month is Stub September, and you’re invited! From September 12th through 25th, you can expand short articles on Fanlore to earn party-themed badges in honor of the OTW’s 15th birthday.

But what IS a “stub”? It’s a term we - and other wikis - use to describe a very short page with little to no information on it. Many stubs contain only an introductory sentence or two - but they’re still hugely valuable to Fanlore, as they can all be added to and built on!

Adding a few words is enough to expand a stub - and earn you a badge in Stub September! You can even browse our handy stub category to find pages to add to.

Want to help make more Fanlore pages, but can’t think of a lot to say? You can make a stub and give other editors something to add to! Anyone with a Fanlore account that’s at least four hours old can create a page - check out our Starting a new page Help page to learn more!

There’s five party-themed badges to collect in Stub September; can you earn them all? Learn more about how to participate in our guide to Stub September! If this is your first time editing Fanlore, you can also check out our New Visitor Portal and tutorial pages to learn how to get started.

Happy editing, and if you have any questions, leave a comment and we'll get right back to you!

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Stub September is back on September 13!

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Monday, September 6th, 2021 09:48 pm
A purple sky with a planet looming in the background and a shooting star falling towards a dark horizon. Text outlined in the sky reads: STUB SEPTEMBER


Get ready to explore the final frontier during Stub September, which is officially taking place from September 13-26! Check out this participation guide to find out how to earn badges by expanding short articles on Fanlore!

Still have questions about how to participate? Not to worry! As always, you can look at our tutorial pages or read up on the event's history on Fanlore, but better yet, feel free to join the Fanlore Discord! We'll be talking about the challenge before, during, and after, and there are Fanlore editors and users of all levels who can answer questions you have at any time!
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Coming Soon... Stub September!

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Monday, August 31st, 2020 11:35 pm
A carnival-style ticket booth with red and white stripes. A plague at the top reads ‘Fanlore Stub September’ while a sign below the booth window reads ‘Coming Soon’.

The carnival is coming to town! Next month is our annual Stub September event, where the goal is to add content to short pages on Fanlore.

From September 7th to September 20th you can earn badges for expanding different kinds of articles. Check out the below resources to learn more about how to do that, or read up on the history of Stub September here!
Enjoy your time at the Fanlore Fairground!
 
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Stub September is back!

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Monday, September 16th, 2019 05:56 pm
A banner for Stub September, created in the style of a ticket with 'ADMIT ONE' on one end and a barcode on the other. The main body of the banner reads: Stub September - from Sept 16 to Sept 29, 2019. Tell us about your fandom!

Fanlore is proud to announce the return of our regular event, Stub September, in 2019!

If you've done much browsing of Fanlore you've probably seen some pages marked as "Stubs."

A yellow label that appears on Fanlore pages marked as a stub.

There are currently more than 3300 pages on Fanlore marked as stubs, but with your help, we can take that number down a bit!

So, from September 16th to 29th we'll be running Stub September, a two-week challenge aimed at adding just a little bit more information to some of these short or empty pages. You don't have to be a seasoned Fanlore editor to help us out; we've got all the details you need to participate right here.

We'll also be giving out fabulous badges to participants, designed especially for this challenge by our talented graphic design team.

You can earn a badge by:
  • Adding to a stub (any amount counts!)
  • Expanding a page so that it no longer has a stub flag
  • Creating a new stub
  • Finding a page incorrectly flagged as a stub, and removing/changing the flag.

We even have an extra hidden badge to award to editors who put in a special effort during this challenge!

Good luck and happy editing!

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