Female Characters at Fanlore

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I'm in no way officially connected to Fanlore, but I do sometimes get bitten by the wiki bug and spend several months at a time poking around on the site. Fanlore is still in beta stage, and is significantly lacking in some areas--and articles about female characters (along with het and femslash pairings) are definitely scarce.

I want to do a little project as part of halfamoon, and it occurred to me that maybe other members of the comm might be interested in doing this with me. If your favourite female character doesn't have a Fanlore page of her own, create one! If she has a stubby page, add a bit of info! If you aren't comfortable editing the wiki yourself, drop me a line and I'll edit the wiki for you.

* See the articles about TOS and Reboot Uhura for an idea of what a fleshed-out article might include.
* See Naruto's Haruno Sakura for an example of an article which is currently a stub.

There are a lot of female characters who have very little--or no!--representation on the wiki yet. The Merlin (BBC) ladies, Buffy Summers, Dana Scully, Doctor Who's female companions, or the many awesome ladies of Bleach and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Editing Fanlore isn't always intuitive, but I found the editing cheatsheet and templates pages fairly helpful. I'm no expert at wiki editing, but again, I'd be more than happy to offer what help I can to anyone who asks.


Stubs created for this project:
Rose Tyler
Martha Jones
Gwen (Merlin BBC)
Morgana (Merlin BBC)

Comments

[inkstone]

...I cannot believe I am quoted in the Claymore stub.

[mtgat]

*is banned there for having edited her own page*

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's certainly a shock to find oneself quoted. I had a moment of ". . . whaa--?" when I saw the Coffee Prince page.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking of the Fan History Wiki? So far as I'm aware, Fanlore doesn't ban anyone for editing their own pages; I've done it, and no one has raised any eyebrows.

[havocthecat]

You should go and talk to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]; she's made the same thing her personal project.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I'm pathetically uncomfortable contacting people I don't already know out of the blue, but I'm delighted to hear that someone else had the same idea.

[mtgat]

You're right. My mistake. :) Thanks for checking!

[anenko.livejournal.com]

No problem!

Like I said, I'm in no way officially connected to Fanlore, but if you have any questions or concerns, you can check out the Fanlore comm on Dreamwidth.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Hi!

No need to contact me out of the blue, I have been folliwing halfamoon since last year. :)

This: http://fanlore.org/wiki/User:Yvi is my current to-do list on the Wiki and I would be vaguely interested in making something a little more organized. Only vaguely because I am buried in work this month because I am handing in a thesis in 4 weeks.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

On your user page you say you want to get a DW account one day - I am not using my LJ anymore except for comms and would be quite happy to send you an invite, if you want it.

[wendelah1]

Thanks for this post! I keep meaning to start adding to Fanlore but have felt intimidated by the interface. I'm adding this to memories and resolving to do better. I could at least fix a broken link and add to Dana Scully's page.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Looking over your to-do list, I'm amazing all over again by how many big name female characters still have wiki pages. Unfortunately, most of my current fandoms aren't large enough to require character-specific subpages, so I've just been tossing up some really sparse stubs for this project.

And thank you for the DW invite in your other comment, but I ended up buying an account when DW moved out of beta.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Yay for more Scully! She could very well end up with an epic entry once people start adding to her article; the current info doesn't even touch on the cancer arc, and I recall that being something of a subgenre of it's own.

If you need any help or handholding during the editing process, I'm more than happy to provide :) There's also the "fanlore" comm on Dreamwidth, if you'd like input from a larger user base.

[wendelah1]

If you need any help or handholding during the editing process, I'm more than happy to provide

Thank you, hand-holding is probably what I'm going to need. I think I'm already a member of the dreamwidth com.