June is the new articles challenge on Fanlore, and I seem to have created 35... ( Long rambly stuff under the cut, mainly Bujold & Tolkien related... )

I've been defeating the object of Fanlore's Stub September by adding lots of new articles -- three fans, three Buffyverse female vampires and a lot of Blake's 7 articles, mainly websites & essays, but also one on Dayna ( Read more... )

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I've started trying to improve Fanlore's coverage of Austen fanfiction. Some thoughts on a 'top 15' list...

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I finally finished the stubs crawl I've been doing over at Fanlore, which I started towards the end of August. The total has been reduced from ~1,750 to 1,188, though mainly by moving articles into two or three other smaller heaps. I feel a tremendous sense of wasted time, but hopefully it will encourage people to work on some of the less-needy ( Read more... )

If you've ever edited Fanlore, an anonymous editor survey is ongoing to help in strategic planning. I'd encourage people to respond, even if their experiences of Fanlore have been negative so far, in the hope that responses might help to guide improvements in the future. There are more details on dreamwidth; the survey itself is here.

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I seem to have inadvertently created my hundredth article at fanlore, a deeply pitiful page about Treewishes, who turned up in my current stub sort and is a friend of several on my f'list, but about whom I turn out to know precisely naught.

Meanwhile back to my trudge through the stubs heap (currently on M). Between Stub September, which I ( Read more... )

I've been noodling around Fanlore of late, after being invited to join the gardening team, and had the idea for a project to add ten classic stories for each of my main fandoms. I soon got round to bending the rules a bit, as you will see. Here's some thoughts for Tolkien -- 20 LotR & Silmarillion stories... ( under the cut... )

temeres has started an interesting discussion about B7 fanfiction, in particular in the context of its coverage at Fanlore, & solicits input from other fans...

...a 'new wave' of B7 fiction that emerged in the second half of the 1990s. It was certainly my impression that there was a movement of this kind, but I never read zines that widely so maybe I was ( Read more... )