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agnieszkasI blame tiyire for this. I'm writing this right here at the top so everyone knows.
I had a very difficult week. One client was starting up a new campaign and they needed copy, so they sent it to me to write. They were also preparing another campaign and they heard I know photoshop, so they asked me to format graphic materials as well. On top of that another client had me doing pre-meeting preparations with lots of briefing materials somebody (me) had to write. Plus OTW stuff had me up and learning about things I needed to know to revamp our Wiki pages.
As a result, by Wednesday I was a walking zombie with little to none creative juices.
So of coursetiyire had to comment on my entry about org wiki and casually mention Fanlore.
And because I have zero impulse control (you should see me buy nailpolish), I went to check it out. I vaguely remembered creating an account last year when I wanted to be a part of EVERY OTW PROJECT EVER BECAUSE OMG SO AWESOME AND SHINY!!!!!1!!!! and it turned out I even remembered my password...
Big mistake.
I asked myself what fandom phenomenon I wanted to read about on Fanlore and decided to search for Vhelton. If you dont know what Vhelton is, consider yourself both lucky and fannishly poorer (lol, is that even a word). I was surprised to learn there was no page about Vhelton. Well, now there is.
There was also no page for Stiles Stilinski. Well, now there is.
I am contemplating posting about those entries on Tumblr, but Fanlore might not be ready for THAT. Last time I promoted something on Tumblr was to get more Nagron fics on AO3 (there were three at the time). BOOM.
But that kind of exposure would surely bring attention to Fanlore and more people editing and adding content to it.
It's either that or writing to Wiki about different language versions of Fanlore to include fandoms that have no English speaking or international reach (like language specific communities of fandoms that only happen in specific countries). Maybe I should do both, as revenge ontiyire for those three hours of my day stolen by Fanlore on Wednesday alone...
tiyire for this. I'm writing this right here at the top so everyone knows.I had a very difficult week. One client was starting up a new campaign and they needed copy, so they sent it to me to write. They were also preparing another campaign and they heard I know photoshop, so they asked me to format graphic materials as well. On top of that another client had me doing pre-meeting preparations with lots of briefing materials somebody (me) had to write. Plus OTW stuff had me up and learning about things I needed to know to revamp our Wiki pages.
As a result, by Wednesday I was a walking zombie with little to none creative juices.
So of course
tiyire had to comment on my entry about org wiki and casually mention Fanlore.And because I have zero impulse control (you should see me buy nailpolish), I went to check it out. I vaguely remembered creating an account last year when I wanted to be a part of EVERY OTW PROJECT EVER BECAUSE OMG SO AWESOME AND SHINY!!!!!1!!!! and it turned out I even remembered my password...
Big mistake.
I asked myself what fandom phenomenon I wanted to read about on Fanlore and decided to search for Vhelton. If you dont know what Vhelton is, consider yourself both lucky and fannishly poorer (lol, is that even a word). I was surprised to learn there was no page about Vhelton. Well, now there is.
There was also no page for Stiles Stilinski. Well, now there is.
I am contemplating posting about those entries on Tumblr, but Fanlore might not be ready for THAT. Last time I promoted something on Tumblr was to get more Nagron fics on AO3 (there were three at the time). BOOM.
But that kind of exposure would surely bring attention to Fanlore and more people editing and adding content to it.
It's either that or writing to Wiki about different language versions of Fanlore to include fandoms that have no English speaking or international reach (like language specific communities of fandoms that only happen in specific countries). Maybe I should do both, as revenge on
tiyire for those three hours of my day stolen by Fanlore on Wednesday alone...
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Date: 2012-09-22 11:48 am (UTC)We thought about different language versions of Fanlore and we´d like to have that some day, but at the moment we have so many other projects that it has low priority. What people occasionally do is that they add a section "x-language fandom" on a general fandom page and describe specific trends there, or write about different-language-communities in English.
See you at the editing chat :)
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Date: 2012-09-22 11:57 am (UTC)I can understand the low priority. I'll put it on my to-do list though. We're deep in the archive translation interface right now, but fanlore can be the next big thing for traslation :P
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Date: 2012-09-22 12:29 pm (UTC)Sure, as soon as Translation is finished with the archive translation interface and Fanlore has a forum and mediawiki upgrade, plus other stuff that might come up, (and both committees had a probably much-needed break!) we can talk about it :)
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Date: 2012-09-22 02:17 pm (UTC)Heh, I wasn't thinking abotu getting on this OMG RIGHT THIS SECOND, everybody's so busy, it's highly unlikely. But hey, I can't help but to have ideas :)
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Date: 2012-09-22 05:41 pm (UTC)