Talk:MediaMiner.Org
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Root needs to make this site so it automatically submits to FanWorksFinder. --Partly_Bouncy 07:21, 21 July 2007 (CDT)
[edit] Unlocked
Sorry about the lock. I believe it was locked so that you had to register because the article was repeatedly getting hit by spam bots. It has been opened back up so anyone can edit with out registering. --Laura 22:32, 7 January 2008 (CST)
[edit] Comparative Archive Size Chart
With the fandoms picked solely by people who know little about anime fandom (and anything not-TV, actually), plus with the inclusion of 4400, a nonexistent fandom, and Heroes, which is tiny and not on a majority of the sites, a new chart should be drawn up. I suggest at the very least removing those two and including popular anime fandoms like Inuyasha or... well, I don't know that much about it, either, so that one and whatever else research might give you (DBZ maybe?). Video game and book fandoms also need to be represented. Fewer TV shows should be present.
Since you admit to having had a poor sampling technique, it should be important to replace this with something at the very least more representative of fandom in general. I'm not going to go so far as to suggest anyone has the time to do a proper statistical sample, though.
-- Mike (Lady Mac sent me)
- That chart could probably be removed from the MediaMiner.Org page. It was mostly included because the anti-FanLib contingent were arguing that FanLib was bound to fail because they did not have the same growth or better growth than FanFiction.Net. They made that argument here back in May/June 2007. It really annoyed me at the time because FanLib had opened in March 2007 and FanFiction.Net was opened in October 1998. The anti-FanLib component were assuming that in order for FanLib to succeed, they had to match FanFiction.Net. I wanted to show that FanLib's growth, in that period, was pretty darned good when you looked at archives MediaMiner.Org, FanWorks.Org, AdultFanFiction.Net were added to the sample that the anti-FanLib crowd were doing.
- Given that, I'm not in favor of replacing the table as the historical numbers are still useful. I would suggest that it might be worth going to various fandom pages like Dragon Ball Z, Inuyasha, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, etc and adding numbers from today and updating them occasionally. (And when entered, note the date for the story totals... and then you can measure growth over time.) If that make sense. That way, there are ways of getting longitudinal data for historical comparison purposes. (And then, interesting meta can be written and submitted to fanthropology or as a locked essay on Fan History. :) --Laura 23:07, 7 January 2008 (CST)
