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Re: Wiki adminning: Different strategies to deal with conflicts

sidewinder_FH — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:03:30 -0000

Good post, and yeah -- I tend to go with option #2 as my default position. I think we've learned (sometimes the hard way) that this is the generally the best approach to take. I can't personally live with myself if all of the truth is denied in favor of #3 unless the situation has become untenable; #2 may not always be perfect but if seems to open up the best possibilities to come out of a nasty situation as well as may be possible.

Re: Michael Jackson fanfiction: is it out there?

sidewinder_FH — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:52:08 -0000

Thank you Rachel! I'll be sure to check them out and add the info to the wiki.

Re: Michael Jackson fanfiction: is it out there?

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:14:05 -0000

Thanks for the link to the site. I'll add it to the Michael Jackson fanfic links at FanHistory so more people can find it. It seems a lot of people are interested in finding fan fiction right now and maybe expressing their feelings through fanfic, so it's good to know there are some forums out there for it.

Re: Michael Jackson fanfiction: is it out there?

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:12:55 -0000

Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to add it to the MJ Fanfiction section at FanHistory so more people can find it.

Re: Laura’s link building philosophy

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:23:23 -0000

I'll send you an email. Then it'll be up to the good doctor to decide to pay for it or not.

Re: Laura’s link building philosophy

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:04:58 -0000

So, how much would you charge my sweetie to build links for his new podiatry web site :D

Re: Michael Jackson fanfiction: is it out there?

sidewinder_FH — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:32 -0000

Hello, and thank you for the link! I'll be sure to check out the site and update our links here at FanHistory with this information, so that other fans can find their way there.

Re: Michael Jackson fanfiction: is it out there?

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:05:06 -0000

Cool, thanks. I'll have to add that to the Michael Jackson article. I'd forgotten which large multi-fandom archives allow RPF.

Re: Archive of Our Own vs. FanLib: Why they are not succeeding

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:05:26 -0000

Well, yes. There seems to be no energy being put into marketing it as the "one archive to fit all of 'fandom''s needs!" the way it was initially being promoted. It looks far more like a little vanity project, frankly. Which, of course, may simply be what everything related to OTW is anyway...

Re: Torchsong Chicago

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:10:55 -0000

CodependentPrimaDonna, very sorry to hear about your experiences, and I know you were not alone in them. Please do keep us posted if you make any progress in getting a legal resolution to the situation, or know of other fans who do.

Re: Archive of Our Own vs. FanLib: Why they are not succeeding

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:29:48 -0000

I still think it will be interesting to look at statistics if/when AOOO move out of "closed beta" (where one must be invited to get a posting account). I know FanLib never moved out of "open beta", but still, that's a difference.

That said, what I mostly saw going on was a select group of media fandom folks from livejournal getting invites, uploading their old fic, and then not doing much more there except in the big media fandoms of Supernatural, Smallville, etc (where the numbers are still paltry compared to what is elsewhere). I didn't see any real incentive for people to get into using the site to read vs. using LJ to read in the same fandoms.

The category structure there just also makes my head spin and go WTF and the visual icon system more confusing than easily comprehended.

I've still yet to find an archive that pleased me structurally and in its usability as much as RockFic does--which makes it all the more shame so little is being done there these days...

Re: From the keyword vault… 2

sidewinder_FH — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:14:36 -0000

These posts are made of win.

Re: From the keyword vault…

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:09:36 -0000

i have wanking races with friends is this normal

easily my favorite.

Re: From the keyword vault…

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:01:36 -0000

oooooh. That absolutely did not ever occur to me. Now I feel dirty. :P

See, and my mind is ALWAYS in the gutter, so that was the first thing I thought of!

Re: From the keyword vault…

sidewinder_FH — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:51:13 -0000

Ah ha ha ha. I SO approve of this post and do hope it becomes a regular feature. I especially lol'ed over this one:

can wanking be beneficial to growth

They might not have meant the kind of wanking you referred to... ;)

Re: Fan fiction on a wiki?

sidewinder_FH — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:03:48 -0000

Hmm. Yeah.

As I know you know, I use MediaWiki for my my personal fic archive. For my purposes I like it for a number of reasons: being able to password protect access, using talk pages as a feedback forum (not that, so far, more than one or two people have ever bothered using it...), being easily able to edit story files without having to deal with ftp/re-uploading, etc.

But it is a little...unwieldy. The way categories work, is both good and bad. I can cross categorize by fandom, genre, length, pairings. But I need to some how work on making the listings on the main category pages include the summary data so they aren't just a list of titles with no further information.

I think there's potential for utilizing the wiki platform for fic archiving. But for a multi-fandom, multi-author thing, I can see it would definitely require major tweaking and extensions.

Re: Geocities is closing!

sidewinder_FH — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:58:40 -0000

Wow, that's gonna be another HUGE blow as far as old/lost sites and fiction goes. :(

I think I need to run and save copies for myself of some old favorites soon...

Re: Can LadySybilla and Russet Moon hang on long enough to change fandom?

sidewinder_FH — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:34:56 -0000

I think what does make this case different - and part of why it exploded (at least in some circles) so much, was the extent to which this author was trying to make it so public and generate attention. The Press Releases, promotions on various websites, setting up the domain and running multiple "presale" ebay auctions... Selling fanfiction may not be new, but taking it to this kind of blatant public eye is.

Which is also what made it an interesting story to follow. What *would* have happened if she'd not been "intercepted" by fandom, and taken the book to full, "for profit" publication? (Even through small/self-press.) How could a lawsuit, or lack thereof, affect the way fandom tends to view fanfiction and its legalities?

Re: It’s the next big thing! Or, maybe not.

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:23:13 -0000

>It's a hassle and with minimal payoff if most of your social circle is also staying put.

That's the main issue for me, really. If I were still really active in certain fannish circles, I probably would have more desire or impetus to move. If DW really is able to implement reading of all different journaling sites via a friends page, like I've heard is in the works (but probably not ready in time for April 30?) that would be a HUGE plus to me and I could totally see using DW to *read*, if not post regularly as long as the bulk of my friends stay on LJ.

And it's also a financial thing; I spent $100 without thinking back in the day to buy a permanent account on LJ and I have no regrets for all the years I got out of it and plan to still get from it. I jumped to buy a permanent account on IJ during the big frenzy last year...and that really got me nothing. And, shoot...I'm user 37 on JournalFen and despite some of its issues, I still find it useful to me. I see no great impetus to buy a seed account at DW though at $200 until I know if it's really going to offer me something I need (and I actually HAVE that kind of money to burn, which right now, I don't. But I'll buy a month at $3.) I want to see something more than just Yet Another Journaling Site for my money this time around...and I'll play the waiting game to see what really ends up happening.

Re: WHY HELLO THAR BASEBALL! I MISSED YOU!

sidewinder_FH — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:41:25 -0000

I'm excited about the start of baseball season, too. Of course, there's plenty of excitement here for it in Philly, although it didn't take more than the opening night loss for fans to start bitching and moaning on the local sports radio station about them!

But I do agree, there's something wonderful about the immediate sense of community within sports fandom. You go to a game and end up hugging and high-fiving people you've never met before; there's something invigorating about the energy of the crowd during a tense or exciting game; it's also an environment where, at least in my experience a lot of issues like race and gender just seem to fade away during those interpersonal relations with other fans, as that's all that matters: Do you love this team? Hate them? Then we share, at least for that moment, a common bond. I love both football (my first sports love) and baseball (my newer one) so I haven't been starving for that as long, but it is good to have it back and I'm looking forward to getting to some games myself.

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:53:54 -0000

Yeah, could end up just being a lot of spam - as happened with yahoogroups and newsgroups :(

I basically don't watch very much tv or listen to the news these days. I pretty much just put on my music (and sports radio, when I want some fanwanking that I find amusing/interesting but have zero interest in getting involved in.)

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:17:45 -0000

I've avoided the whole Twitter thing because to me it's just an extension of the no-attention-span ADHD world. I suppose at some point I should try it just to see if it would have ANY use to me for my businesses, but beyond that...I'd rather have real conversations with my friends and people I'm interested in. All this one-liner stuff doesn't really do it for me, and I don't need to know every mundane issue of everyone's lives, certainly not all as it's happening (heck, people still complain about LiveJournal--some fans are still like "I only want to read fannish content! I hate it when an author I like posts about their real life in their journal too!"

It's sort of like...important content and serious matters all get lost in a sea of inanity and the mundane. A tweet from someone complaining about missing the morning bus to work gets the same weight as a breaking international news story. I just...it's one of those things that really sort of has no interest to me, and I'm sure once the hype fades perhaps it will settle into more actual usefulness for those people who have an actual need/use for it, whereas all the random people just talking about what they ate for lunch will fade away...

Re: #rcc09 RecentChangesCamp patterns

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:54:28 -0000

>I don't suppose if we do Australia, you want to go? ;-)

Hah. Would love to if money were no object...but these days it totally is. Also if I travel that far to go somewhere, I'd want to spend most of my time sight-seeing instead of at a conference...

Re: #rcc09 RecentChangesCamp patterns

sidewinder_FH — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:04:25 -0000

Is there a list somewhere of the wiki communities which were represented at Recent Changes Camp? I'd just be curious to see how it broke down as far as which wikis were there, and which weren't. Big and small. 'Cause that could be interesting to see, as far as which communities see the value in attending, which ones don't see what's in it for them, and also which ones may not even know of the barcamp's existence.

Re: #rcc09 RecentChangesCamp patterns

sidewinder_FH — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:20:01 -0000

I would say as someone running a small, strictly non-profit "hobby" wiki, as much as I love it and would enjoy talking to other wiki people at some point, flying cross country for something like this isn't too high on my possibility/priority/necessary expense list. I think it would be nice to have an event in say the Boston/Cambridge area (another "techie"-central region). And yeah, better promotion would be good. If not for being involved in FH and hearing you talk about RCC, I don't think I'd have ever heard of it on my own.