Fanhistory.com talk:About
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The about change has changed a bit as the focus of the wiki is changing to be more about the whole of fandom history involving art, fic, vids and discussion, rather than focusing solely on the fan fiction component. At some point in the future, category pages will be changed on a much larger scale, and using a bot, to reflect that focus. For now though, that is a slow moving process. Thank you for your patience. --Laura 04:26, 7 October 2007 (CDT)
[edit] 7,100 pages
Yeah! :) The 7,000 page benchmark made me really excited. I think by 10,000 pages, the wiki should reach a critical mass where there are enough regular contributors to help generate moment to encourage more edits. :) Any promotion of the wiki in other locations, on blogs, on sites like Technorati, Del.ico.us and Digg, on fansites would be very much appreciated. :) Because Fan History and its supporters have been busy documenting fandom history since 2000, when this history first began to be told on FanFiction.Net. --Laura 13:47, 18 December 2007 (CST)
[edit] Ranking
[edit] March 2008
W00t! Rank on Quantcast went from 114,964 yesterday to 113,924 today. [1] Been following as we've been trying to improve the traffic and content for the project this month. Some of this has been going on behind the scenes. Lot of it is just plugging and plugging away. We're waiting until the article count exceeds 10,000 before contemplating the idea of spending money to do a press release and go after that more aggressively. We're also waiting to see how things go post MediaWest. Hopefully that should give Fan History a bump in interest. --Laura 14:53, 14 March 2008 (CDT)
I've got to stop watching the ranking data. According to Quantcast, Fan History's rank is rank 111,509 today. Increased rank and increased traffic are really important. More traffic means more people who might be interested in helping improve Fan History. That's the goal of plugging Fan History all over the place: To get more people involved, even if it is on a drop in basis for a few edits here and there, in order to share the history of fandom. This can be anything from adding the names of people in the fandom, to plugging their own fandom projects to adding a whole slew of dates to adding words used in a fandom. It is an important project and one that really needs more people involved just because of the huge scope of fandom. One person, one hundred people. It just isn't enough to get an accurate idea of what is going on. Making it even more challenging, fandom history is not sitting still. Things are always happening that are important to the history of fandom and they all need to be documented. Massive thanks to all the bloggers and sites out there who have linked to Fan History. :) I really appreciate it. --Laura 09:06, 16 March 2008 (CDT)
