Talk:Fan wiki

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen talk 07:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that some editors left Wikipedia to form Wookieepedia, a Star Wars franchise fan wiki, because other editors complained that they were including too much information in Star Wars articles?

• Source: Jones, Henry (2021). "Wikis". In Baker, Mona; Blaagaard, Bolette B.; Jones, Henry; Pérez-González, Luis (eds.). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. Critical Perspectives in Citizen Media (ebook ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-61981-1.

• ALT1: ... that some fan wikis document fan fiction? Source: Mittell, Jason (2013). "Wikis and Participatory Fandom". In Delwiche, Aaron; Henderson, Jennifer Jacobs (eds.). The Participatory Cultures Handbook (ebook ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0-203-11792-7.
• ALT2: ... that the Star Trek Beyond writers Simon Pegg and Doug Jung consulted the Star Trek fan wiki Memory Alpha and its administrators during the film's production? Source: Comerford, Chris (November 2018). "Participatory Toolboxes: Franchise Fan Wikis as Tools of Textual Production" (PDF). Participations. 15 (2): 286–287.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Iktara (song)

Created by Voorts (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

voorts (talk/contributions) 21:28, 17 August 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Fun article that meets all of the necessary criteria; AGF on the book sources, as I can't quite seem to get ebook access. I prefer ALT1 and ALT0 slightly behind it; ALT0 might be navel-gazing, but works fine, while ALT2 is a bit too wordy and includes too many links that bury the actual article. SounderBruce 03:21, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

• • Thanks. I agree that ALT1 is probably the best; it's pithy and actually about the article topic writ large, instead of just an example. voorts (talk/contributions) 19:11, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Omission?

Is this deliberately omitting Fanlore (the Organization for Transformative Works' fan history wiki)? Not sure whether there are WP-level indept sources available (it never got the traction of AO3) but as a fan it feels like an important development as a big fannish wiki not hosted by the usual suspects. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:28, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

It didn't come up in my research. The article is mostly sourced to scholarly literature, and only a few wikis have been written about. I'll look into it, though. voorts (talk/contributions) 03:42, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

There's some aca sources at the end of the Fanlore article on itself [1] -- of which [2] is open access, English, indept and has coverage; it states that Fanlore is archived at the Digital Culture Web Archive of the American Folklife Center and talks a bit about the GeoCities Rescue Project. (Full disclosure: I used to be an admin on Fanlore some years back.) Espresso Addict (talk) 04:45, 2 November 2024 (UTC)