Wheeee! *falls over*

[brown_betty]

I got myself on the OTW wiki committee, or as we sometimes cannot seem to stop ourselvews from calling it, the wikommittee, and the otw fan wiki, fanlore, is now in live beta. If you like playing with wikis, consider creating an account and starting with your user page. We're trying to do something different from what wikipedia is doing, which is

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[elfwreck]

So, umm... given the lack of starter guidelines on the Wiki (what's there will make much more sense when it's larger; right now, it's all a bit intimidating)--what's the general idea? Jump in, add two-sentence descriptions of every aspect of fandom we can think of? Or is it preferred that people only create pages for something they know something real about? Create *something* if there should be a page there, or try to stick to either topics you know or creating small/stub pages if you're good with wiki formatting?

(I can't figure out how to do that box-on-the-right thing. I'm sure I'll eventually figure it out; the help file looks good. And technical. And scary.)

[brown_betty]

A nice way to get started is to write you own fandom profile on your user page and work out from there. You can see my user-page for a sort of example. If wiki-formatting is scary, you don't need to worry about it; the wiki wonks will come along behind and tidy up.

[elfwreck]

I'm afraid of making a fannish profile. Or rather, paranoid; between some RL events and the clusterfuck that is FH.com, I haven't sorted out how much info I want to be public. (I've worked at not locking things down, but for the last year or so, I've been very careful about what new bits I release.)

OTOH, I suppose the info I'd consider my fannish history/profile isn't the stuff I'm actually worried about. And I don't want to live paranoid forever.

Thanks!

[brown_betty]

I'm relatively paranoid myself, but there's nothing on my profile page that's not on my livejournal userinfo, really.

[bkm5191]

is RPS ok or just FPS?

[brown_betty]

You mean in the actual fic archive, or on fanlore? I mean, either way, the answer is 'Yes, it's fine' but fanlore doesn't archive fic, we're more about documenting fandom.

[bkm5191]

I meant the fanlore, thank you :)

[ratcreature]

I read on a policy page that said "A User Page is not to be confused with a page about a person in Fanlore - the distinction is explained in detail in our FAQ." but the FAQ is not linked, and I can't find any FAQ document when I search or in the sitemap. I guess that one page is what you say about yourself and only you can edit that, and the other is what others say and anyone can add anything about you from their POV and because of the PPOV you can't correct there, as long as the guidelines aren't violated? But I'm kind of unsure.

ETA: I found the FAQ through random clicking (no idea though why search didn't bring me there), and it's apparently still in the earliest stages and the question about the differences not answered there yet.