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[hope]

Hey peeps. To anyone who was looking at/using fandomwiki.com, I discovered www.fanhistory.com, which kind of negates the need for fandomwiki.com to exist!

I've just gone and password protected the domain to use it for my own nefarious backup purposes so's the space doesn't go to waste. Just thought I'd let those of you who had signed up for an account on the fandomwiki know.

ETA: to make it clear to the folks who haven't been loitering around here for years *g*:

This is NOT the Super-wiki. That'll remain as-is.

fandomwiki.com is another site of mine entirely, not at all related to SPN.

Comments

[improperlydone.livejournal.com]

So the John/Dean Supernatural information will be going up over there? I hope so as that J/D page provided me with some excellent stories! I love that wiki.

[hope]

Nope, this is something else entirely to the super-wiki. *edits post to make that clear*

[improperlydone.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... Thanks for the clarification! I love the Supernatural Wiki. It's such a great source of information.

[hope]

*........licks sammy's neck in your icon*

[reynard-pyjama.livejournal.com]

They don't have entries for crack or incesuous nocon threesomes...

[hope]

you shall have to add them! Thus the beauty of the wiki medium :)

[reynard-pyjama.livejournal.com]

I think you'd be more qualified to do that. Though it might be wise to wait untill after the end of the month. You probably don't want to be citing an entry you created or wotnot.

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

you should make a site called supertater.com. Then I would post... things there.

[hope]

.....I'm sure you would. o_O O_o o_O

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

There are some serious issues with Laura's site, however. I'm not sure it *does* negate the need for another wiki. Maybe we could advertise it some more and get more people to contribute (b/c i know that quite a few people shy away from Laura's site b/c of her various biases and clear agendas!)

Look at her femslash entry: http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Saffic (she's trying to rename the genre) or her issues with CC and Heidi: http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Heidi_Tandy ...

just a thought (it's not like you don't have a bazillion other things to do, after all :-)

[hope]

Hmm. I see your point. To be honest, when I went and had a look at it the sheer amount and extent of information kind of blew me away and humbled me. I didn't think I could set up anything that would be extensive enough to even try to compete with that, it wasn't worth it.

But, I didn't realise the extent to which she had such authorial control/bias over the content, there.

I was in the process of developing policies to keep my 'fandomwiki' as open and extensive as possible, working out how to convey the concept of multiplicity/subjectiveness of experience I wanted to foster/demonstrate with it... Then, yeah, the bazillion other things took over and I had to set it aside for the time being. But, I am taking a year off study next year in order to work on more fandom stuff.

So, hmm.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

seriously, if you could advertise it a bit better and esp. get some of the older fans involced...i've had nothing but positive experiences...it's hard, and with laura writing like a fiend kinda intimidating, yes...

but i do think a wiki would be a marvelous thing and an open one that's not hamperered by perceived bias (b/c ultimately Laura does good work; it's just that she doesn't clearly separate agenda from info and gets into too many confrontations for people to take her on neutral grounds...)

have you read Francesca Coppa's media fandom history in Fan Fiction and Fan communities and bladibla? :-) i know she gathers quite a bit of info and i'm pretty certain she'd love to share in an open setting...

taking a year off? how fun!!! i can barely get an afternoon off these days...or so it feels :-)

[hope]

Oh, I hadn't even started advertising, yet! Like I said, I was working on developing a policy, or more like a "mission statement"/methodology to guide those who would be contributing, working on building up some entries there for examples. So, I'll think on it some more.

Haven't read the Coppa piece. I ordered that damn book months and MONTHS ago, and it still hasn't arrived. I have also forcibly stopped myself from reading anything new until the thesis is done, because it just complicates everything.

Yup, thought I'd take a break before I did into the postgrad for real! I have been at school non-stop for like, what... almost 18 years, now. Time for some guilt-free spare time.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

that is so smart!!! i never took a break (went for 28 years when all was said and done) and it's so bad on so many levels. school can become a bit too protective/claustrophobic :D

i can't believe you haven't gotten it yet. that sucks!!! i know too little about your thesis to be able to say if it'd complicate...it does have a lot of thought-provoking and usable stuff though (if i may dare say so myself :-)

methodology...great idea!!! i really hope you think some more...b/c we badly need a good history (we keep on copying info from one another, but that's just not enough...i just wrote an encyclpoedia entry on slash and really tried to figure out what the first piece was...consensus remains on marchant, but i at least wanted to *see* the darn piece and all...) luckily there are still folks around who were there then....