Fandom Wiki. Again.

[hope]

Okay, here's the story.

Some time last year I purchased fandomwiki.com, with the thought of creating a place within which fans could meta about their own experience and theories and understanding of fandom. Not as in, a collection of meta pieces, but as in a fandom encyclopedia that reflected (and legitimised!) the subjectivity of fan experience and theorising.

I registered, set up, and started work on it myself (with some help from anatsuno and a couple other people, I think!). I was keen on developing a pseudo-methodology, wanted to sort out with myself and establish the kind of atmosphere/practice for contributing that would foster the kind of all-accepting/subjective knowledge base (and common history!) that I'd envisaged.

As things tend to happen, other things took over my time (namely, the thesis!), and then I was pointed in the direction of FanHistory.com. Which is, essentially, a fandom wiki. Which seemed to make my yet un-developed fandomwiki.com somewhat defunct.

But anyway. I decided to not waste the space I'd already bought and instead just lock down the fandomwiki.com domain for my own personal use. I made a post about it here, letting anyone who'd been aware of it know, and a few people kind of stuck their hands up and said, hey. Fanhistory.com *isn't* the most reliable, multi-authored encyclopedia you had in mind.

So. Now that I have more time again, talk to me. cathexys & ithiliana, I'm looking at you specifically, here. But the rest of you as well *g*

Would it be viable for me to re-activate fandomwiki.com? I'm thinking that at least in the development stage, those of you who are aca-fen would be the best candidates to build up a ... culture of knowledge, the type of atmosphere we're (or well, *i'm*) looking for.

Or, oh wise and seasoned aca-fen - what are your thoughts on this whole thing? I'm totally willing to take your guidance on this, if you have ideas you think are viable for this.

I have the domain, I have the space, and the technical know-how to manage it all... Talk to me!

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i'd like to see something like this! we need to get the "older" fans to volunteer, so we can at least track the history to XF beginnings on usenet (there are a few here and there who came into fandom during zinedays...and usually they love to help)

so, yes...organize it well...get a few respected names behind you (non-wanky dinosaurs :-)...goyou!!!

[hope]

How do you reckon I should go about it? I know I'm possibly not the best voice to attract interest from those non-wanky dinosaurs *g*

I have an lj community registered... would that help, d'you think?

*flails*

[kikiduck.livejournal.com]

Aca-fen has entertained me for the last ten minutes for no apparent reason. I mean, it's clever, but it shouldn't be that entertaining. I don't know what to say. Clearly, I need more sleep.

ALSO, information sharing and collecting for the WIN. This is good stuff.