Fan History's blog
Blog URL http://blog.fanhistory.com/
Tags fandom, history, entertainment, social media, wikis, seo, fan fiction, mediawiki, news
Discusses what is going on in fandom, issues about running fansites, entertainment related news.
Latest Blog Posts
- Fan History’s relationship in the wiki community on Nov 22, 2009 in Posts by Laura wikis
We talk a lot about the wiki community on our blog and elsewhere because we really feel part of it. We wanted to give you an idea of where we feel like we belong in this community. This isn’t a complete chart of wiki relationships,...
- Revisiting Fan History’s copyright policy on Nov 19, 2009 in Fan History admin Posts by Laura non-fandom wikis
Our admin staff loves the wiki community. They are a helpful bunch, both in terms of content, back end issues, information structuring, etc. Which gets to our point: We floated our proposal to merge with the on the foundation mailing list...
- This day in fandom history: November 18 on Nov 18, 2009 in fandom news
The following is a selection of some events that took place on fandom on this day: On November 18, 1998, “Girl’s Night Out” by Jasen Harold Vokey was the first Digimon story posted to the Internet. On November 18, 2009, The Tw...
- Proposal: Fan History and WMF on Nov 18, 2009 in Posts by Laura wikis
Fan History feels like it is at this point where, in order to further our mission, we need to expand our contributor base a bit. We’ve talked amongst our admin team about methods to do that. One solution that we’ve been considering is t...
- FanFiction.Net status on Nov 18, 2009 in Posts by Laura fandom news
We’re getting hit with visits from at least four countries and ten visitors in the past half hour about people having connection problems with FanFiction.Net. Beyond that, if there is an issue, we won’t know as we can access the sit...
- What does the Organization for Transformative Works look like? on Nov 18, 2009 in Posts by Laura fandom news fans
The Organization for Transformative Works is a fan advocacy group that runs Fanlore and An Archive of Our Own. They were created on LiveJournal and most of their early and continued support continues to come from that community. Much of t...
- This day in fandom history: November 17 on Nov 17, 2009 in fandom news
The following is a selection of some events that took place on fandom on this day: On November 17, 1997, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episode What’s My Line? (1) premiered on television in the United States. [275] On November 17, 1998, the...
