Fanlore:News
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March 14, 2010
A quick note to let everyone know that the Sphinx search engine has been installed at Fanlore and is ready for use.
If you have any issues send a message to the wiki committee at wiki [at] transformativeworks [dot] org.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the testing! We appreciate it!
March 10, 2010
Fanlore will be down on Sunday 3/14/2010 from 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5) to 4:00pm EST to install and test the Spinx search engine extension.
The wiki committee will be testing it after the install, basically just running a few searches. If anyone is around and wants to help out, you can join us in the Fanlore chat room at about 3:30pm EST to run a few searches and make sure that everything works right.
March 4, 2010
We've now topped 100,000 edits! *\o/*
We're not certain, but chances are good that the 100,000th edit was either on the Chromatic Vision page or the PWP page.
February 27, 2010
Wiki Committee Monthly Report
The Wiki Committee is mostly new this year. Our Chair, Meri, is our only member who served the entirety of last year. Christy joined last summer and Cin1607, Cordelia_v, and Evelyn Brown are entirely new. We've had a very busy first month!
We've asked Systems to install the Sphinx search engine, as our research has shown that it's the best system available to us now. We are currently working on developing a test plan to test the search engine once it's been installed.
A draft of the "Major Fandoms as Categories" policy has been completed and is ready for Board review, and we've also drafted a policy on images posted to Fanlore (focusing particularly on the question of copyrighted images and explicit images) and this draft has been sent to Legal and the Board for approval.
We're attempting to post regular themes or challenges on the Dreamwidth Fanlore community to encourage and focus participation. Some of these have been more successful than others, but we'll keep working on it, so bear with us.
February 15, 2010
We've hit 10,000 articles!!! And we're sneaking up on 100,000 edits, so that's the new number to watch. *\o/*
February 11, 2010
We posted a new challenge on the Fanlore community at Dreamwidth last night. Since this one will run through Valentine's Day, we're focusing on love, or more specifically, those phrases or gestures from our emotionally stunted OTPs that have become the accepted shorthand for "I love you."
So what is it that you see, in canon or fanon, that makes your heart melt over how obviously in love your favorite pairing is, even if they're not able to admit it? What's that thing that your fandom points out to new people, saying, "See? That thing they did? So. In. Love." Now go to their pairing page and see if it's described, and if not, stick a paragraph in there explaining it. And if your OTP doesn't have its own page, make one!
February 4, 2010
We posted a challenge on the Fanlore community at Dreamwidth last night to build on to the Newsletter stub on the wiki and also to create as many proper pages for the Newsletter Communities on the subpage as possible. Most of the fandom newsletters listed there only have an external link to their actual site, and we want to be sure their stories are preserved on Fanlore. There are over 100 fandoms and their newsletters listed. Let's see how many pages we can create in a week!
December 19, 2009
Update from the Wiki Committee:
We’ve had a few question recently about with our fair use policies and we worked with Legal to resolve them. We’ve been testing a search function extension that will make it much easier to search the wiki. It’s still in test right, but we hope to have it out soon. We’re also writing a new policy out that will make major fandoms a category by themselves. And we’ve added 2 volunteers to work on documentation. Look for all of this to be done early next year.
November 4, 2009
Fanlore suffered some downtime last night from approximately 10:38pm PST to 02:35am PST. The root cause was a maintenance problem. We're back up and running now.
August 5, 2009
Systems has moved the wiki to its new home on the Zen webserver. Most users will hopefully notice no interruption, but some users may encounter a note redirecting to them to fanlore's new IP address. This is temporary, we apologize for any inconvenience.
July 12, 2009
Christy Corr is the newest member of the wiki committee. She'll bring her experience with the Unknowable Room Harry Potter wiki to the committee, along with it's archive and her insight into some of the history of Harry Potter fandom. Welcome, Christy!
June 26, 2009
Fanlore has added Bug Tracking to the site. You can go ahead and add issues, plus check to see the status on any outstanding items that have already been logged and are in-process.
May 3, 2009
Fanlore has a new social networking community at Dreamwidth, fanlore, where you can ask questions, receive updates, or just hang out with other editors and the fanlore committee. You can comment there using an OpenID (like the one provided by livejournal and other sites) or a Dreamwidth account. The account is also syndicated to to livejournal, at dw_fanlore, or you can track the community using its rss feed.
