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fan:
[...] a keen follower of a specified hobby or amusement, and gen. an enthusiast for a particular person or thing. [1]

lore:

the body of traditional facts, anecdotes, or beliefs relating to some particular subject. b. A body of knowledge, a science. [1]

Welcome to the Fanlore wiki! Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.

Fanlore is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Find out more about Fanlore...

Fanlore is currently in Beta stage. You can lodge your comments and issues via Bug Tracking.

Anyone may register on the Fanlore wiki and begin editing and adding pages immediately. You can either create a new username or login using OpenID. If you're already registered, click here to login now.

As of March 19, 2010, Fanlore has 11,132 articles which have undergone 104,590 edits by 1,755 registered users.

Not sure where to start? Check out our New Visitor Portal, or browse the navigation menu on the left.


News

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!



Fanlore Chat is OPEN

Fanlore has a permanently open chatroom! Hang out and chat while editing.

We've also added a Fanlore:News page, and 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.


  1. 1.0 1.1 Oxford English Dictionary, Online Edition, 2008