Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:04:38 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: That Fancyclopedia Wiki
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at panix.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar, it might also be useful just to join - I think that, as with most wikis, a large
part of the point is that there's far to much work for any one person or group of people
to do.  Instead the work is done by volunteers, who focus on whatever they know the most
about.  Fancyclopedia 1 and 2 were done by individuals, and Fancyclopedia 3 is based on
those, but by now there is so much out there that it's a group enterprise.

And it sounds as if you're exactly one of the types of people needed, someone who
notices and corrects misspelling, punctuation in the wrong place, and all the specific
bits.  It's okay; learning to edit a wiki sounds like a lot of work but learning how to
do the much-needed editing takes very little time at all.  And it's not a full time job,
just fixing things when you notice them.

There's also personal plea: I love wandering through the Fancyclopedia, and wandering
off in different directions for hours.  I only joined fandom in the 80's or later and
often have never heard of these things or am following up on someone's casual reference.
 But I'm also enough of a copy editor that the typos and such throw me out of whatever
I'm reading.  I'd really, really appreciate someone helping out with that sort of thing!

Elspeth

(Yes, I know: I should volunteer rather than asking someone else to.  But I'm already
far, far behind on my wiki fanac, working on various SF-related articles on Wikipedia.)

E.

Michael Walsh wrote:
> I'll be glad to forward your email to Mark Olson - the person listed as =
> current editor, or you can do it: mlo at baskerville.org .
>
> mjw
>
>>>> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 10/23/2011 12:45 PM >>>
>
> The Fancyclopedia Wiki won't let me even send a message to the people in =
> charge of it without joining.  Harrumph.
> So here's the message I want to send:
> they really need to have someone go over it and correct typos.
>
> For instance:
>
> "Accoriding to Sam Moskowitz, "It was suggested by John B. Michel that the =
> club [the NYB-ISA] plan a social outing of some sort; this was agreed to, =
> great controversy ensure as to the destination. "
>
> "Accoriding" should be "According", and I strongly suspect that "ensure" =
> should be "ensued."
>
> =Tamar
>