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Is anyone else up to contributing to the Fanlore article about the OTW 2011 Board Election? My contributions are unstructured and unbalanced, apparently.

(You know, this is why I go through periodic Fanlore burnouts. There's very little in the way of supportive comments, and what feels like a lot of criticism. Get ignored when you ask for help, but someone will make a comment about a page *one person* worked on being "a mess." Bah. Maybe it's time for another break. /wank)

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You know what Fanlore needs? A better article about Fanlore. I've seen criticisms about the wiki--Western-centric, slash focused, non-intuitive, the whole mess with categories, the lack of transparency, burnout, etc. What about mentioning that Fanlore isn't important to some candidates up for nomination to the Board? There must be cheerleading posts about the wiki, too. There's not even a link to the Fanlore Dreamwidth community!

Right now, there's fascinating information such as this:

As of November 3, 2011, the most viewed pages on the wiki are Category:Fandoms by Source Text, The Draco Trilogy, Incest, Fanfiction, Merlin (TV series), White Collar, Merlin/Arthur, Category:Fan Communities, and Category:Glossary. For more statistics, see Special:Statistics. For general information about Fanlore, see Fanlore:About.

I have really got to start saving discussion links.

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Some of you might be interested in adding to the Fanlore article about the 2011 OTW Board Election.

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Fanlore needs new people to join the wiki committee. Seeing as diversity and the OTW was quite the issue on my circle a while back, some of you may be interested in this:

What projects is the wiki committee working on? One of our big areas of focus this year is trying to increase fannish diversity on the wiki, and on outreach to fan communities which are (so far) under-represented on Fanlore. Lately we've also been working on shifting how categories work on the wiki.

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Fanlore's list of Tropes in Fanworks. Help me think of non-Western source examples, and/or het and femslash ones! Diversify!

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fanlore is restructuring and is looking for input from anime and manga fans.

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.

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fanlore's newest 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!

If anyone is nervous about editing the wiki, don't be. I threw up the stubbiest stubs imaginable for Rukia and Orihime of Bleach. Someone will be along to spruce it up eventually :) And if *you* don't create an article about your favourite ladies, there's no saying that anyone will.

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I'm poking around Fanlore again after taking a long break from the site. I get so enthusiastic about the site that when I burn out, I burn out hard.

Anyway!

Since no one else had done so in my absence, I stubbed out Lost Girl. If anyone has any links to meta or fanworks to add, that would be awesome. I have a couple of Lost Girl comms on my flist, but I wouldn't say that I'm part of the fandom.

I'm almost positive that I'm getting Lost Girl for Yuletide! How many people have already figured out--or tried to figure out--their Yuletide fandom?

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I spent ALL DAY editing the X-Men entry at Fanlore. My log shows that I started at 15:32, and 20 something edits later, finished at 23:31.

meg_r and I are the ones doing most of the edits right now, and both of us were active in the fandom back in the CFAN and OTL days. Anyone who knows what the X-Men fandom is up to currently is more than welcome to jump in and bring us up to date!

If anyone is so inclined, there's a LOT of work to be done for the Geocities Rescue Project.

meg_r has set up a Google Docs spreadsheet for anyone who is interested in participating in the project.

If you want to grab screenshots of Geocities pages, or email the links to someone involved in the project, that would be cool--and very much appreciated.

Feel more than free to send in your own Geocities page, too!

See what's been done already.

I finally watched the first episode of 9 End 2 Outs for

dorama_watch. I'm not crazy about the series, but I can easily see myself getting to that point. Best friends turned lovers is one of my favourite tropes; I'll take it over love/hate relationships any day.

9E2O was my test episode at DramaFever--free, subbed, and legal Korean dramas online (in the U.S. and Canada only, at the moment). I'm very pleased with my experience there. The video quality is good, and the episodes aren't chopped into tiny bits the way they are at MySoju and the like.

I'll still have to acquire certain series through other means in order to 1) screencap, 2) save the episodes, but I'll certainly continue supporting DramaFever.

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It feels more than a little arrogant, but I have a page up at Fanlore. I didn't get into the Geocities Rescue Project when it was first announced--I hadn't updated my site in *years*--but at the last minute, I decided that I couldn't let my old website disappear without a trace.

I wish I had a screencap from the site when it was still "Northlight's X-Men Archive." It was ugly in the way a lot of those old Geocities pages were, but I put a lot of energy into that archive. /nostalgia

Spent most of last night spamming Fanlore. Am currently drowning in nostalgia; I've been hunting down so many of the old archives I used to haunt (CFAN, Lori's X-Men Archive, Shifting Sands). It's sad that so many of the sites are dead and gone.

BTW, if anyone wants info added to Fanlore, but isn't comfortable editing the site themselves, give me a shout. I'd be more than happy to include the info for you. Really, look at my half-assed approach to editing!

springkink is taking prompts again.

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There's something about shounen manga that never fails to get to me. I think it's the power of friendship! and power of spirit! that does me in.

I just tore through two volumes of ES21. ♥

I'm also nearing the end of One Piece's Alabasta arc. Usopp and Nami both made me so, so happy.

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Every now and then, a post at

metafandom about Fanlore will spur me into action.

I put up a stub for CFAN, which I'm SHOCKED that no one has tackled already. My memory is bad at the best of times, so the stub is incredibly sketchy, but hell: it's CFAN. I was still wading my way into fandom at that time, but CFAN was huge.

I know some of the flist are Zuko/Katara fans, so if you have any links to (positive!) meta or influential fics and art, I'd be most appreciative. I was never very active in the Avatar fandom, and most of my sources for the article at Fanlore come from Fandom Wank. . . which, obviously, is a problem.

I also set up and/or fleshed out pages for Star Trek (2009), Uhura and Spock/Uhura. They could all use a bit of work, although I'm pleased to say the pages aren't doing too badly.

I just heard the news through OTW_news: GeoCities is closing. I haven't updated my site in years, and moved most of my content to LJ quite a while ago, but *still.* GeoCities was home to many of the fandom and personal archives I first encountered when I stumbled into fandom.

Time is definitely moving on.

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I can't keep myself from adding stubs to Fanlore for fandoms I'm only mildly involved in ("someone will come along and fix things up later, right? Sure they will!)

I put up a stub for DBSK (should the article be labelled under Dong Bang Shin Gi, TVXQ, or Tohoshinki instead?) Suggestions from itsplashes or ranalore?

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I've imported all of my recs to Dreamwidth--it was quick and painless! Unfortunately, all my fic is on a closed community, rather than a personal LJ account. I've been transferring everything manually, which is not quite so easy and painless as DW's import feature.

(I am amazed, though not *surprised* by the amount of wank Dreamwidth has been causing. Oh, fandom.)

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I knew spring was finally here when a guy drove by with all of his windows open, and music pulsing so loudly that the street vibrated with it.

I was so happy I nearly cried.

itsplashes or

ranalore?

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I've imported all of my recs to Dreamwidth--it was quick and painless! Unfortunately, all my fic is on a closed community, rather than a personal LJ account. I've been transferring everything manually, which is not quite so easy and painless as DW's import feature.

(I am amazed, though not *surprised* by the amount of wank Dreamwidth has been causing. Oh, fandom.)

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I knew spring was finally here when a guy drove by with all of his windows open, and music pulsing so loudly that the street vibrated with it.

I was so happy I nearly cried.

I extended the Gokusen entry at Fanlore: Shinkumi, Now With Quotes!

( Cut for woe, angst, and a really pathetic secret. )

"While movieverse fanac tends to be more typical of media fandom, fanac for the comics, a traditionally male-dominated sci-fi fandom, focuses on collection, canon discussions [. . .], cosplay, and roleplay. However, there is still a fanfic movement in the X-Men fandom, which often appears during such multifandom exchanges as Yuletide."

X-Men was a *huge* fandom when I first started writing and posting fanfic. Even though my comic book days are long past, I can still remember archives and the names of various writers. It seems impossible that X-Men comic fic is so reduced in numbers that it barely earns a paragraph at the wiki.

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I don't bother with the comics anymore, but I still do love the X-Men. I've been watching Wolverine and the X-Men, which is pretty cool so far. It's always fun playing "spot the mutant" in X-Men adaptations. *g*

The art is pretty and off-putting at the same time. Everyone has pencil thighs!

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Does anyone have an active *ahem* link to One Piece episodes 26/27? I wanted to picspam Nami's backstory, and the scene where she asks for Luffy's help (that scene *never* fails to make me cry. Never.)

Inspired by

nextian's post about OTW and it's various projects, I signed up at Fanlore.

My contribution so far: Gokusen.

This wiki business is scary, but kind of addictive.

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