Looking back at this, it comes dangerously close to us standing in a circle tossing each other off about the 'good old days' unless we can fulfill the following:
a) provide a reasonably comprehensive and current list of fan groups, lists, mailing lists, LJ communities, etc, without relying on a nebulous 'volunteer fan' base to do so. That means researching and reaching out to these communities in order to accomplish this.
b) provide an accurate overview of the history, as opposed to simply ours. While most of the 'internet based comic lines' were the enjoyable equivilent of shitting into your own mouth, they need to be covered. Weird mutant hybrids like the Uncanny X-Page, the Aerie, etc. The smaller and isolated DC and Image communities. That means recruiting on a focused and dedicated fashion.
c) create and enforce a policy of scope that adequetely addresses media outshoots and adaptions. Determine what the range of allowable overlap is and how to accomedate and differeniate it.
Those three requirements alone make this a project that makes the XP wiki look like a stroll in the park. While I really like the idea as finally the format to a workable successor to CFAN fit in with the balkianized community, it would involve a lot of work led by people who are ostentizably bearly part of the community as is. I mean, seriously, I've read maybe two dozen stories in the last year, have been completely left behind by the comics, and have very little intention of producing new comic fic. So to the outsider, this could easily seem like a gasp for continued relevence or something.
I don't want to dampen enthusiasm, but it is important to understand the kind of scale this project would entail. To my mind, we'd need at least 6-8 people to get this off the ground before the first lick of content hits the pages, and that includes some people with serious pull, past and present. I like the idea a lot, which is why I don't want to make it turn out as a joke.
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a) provide a reasonably comprehensive and current list of fan groups, lists, mailing lists, LJ communities, etc, without relying on a nebulous 'volunteer fan' base to do so. That means researching and reaching out to these communities in order to accomplish this.
b) provide an accurate overview of the history, as opposed to simply ours. While most of the 'internet based comic lines' were the enjoyable equivilent of shitting into your own mouth, they need to be covered. Weird mutant hybrids like the Uncanny X-Page, the Aerie, etc. The smaller and isolated DC and Image communities. That means recruiting on a focused and dedicated fashion.
c) create and enforce a policy of scope that adequetely addresses media outshoots and adaptions. Determine what the range of allowable overlap is and how to accomedate and differeniate it.
Those three requirements alone make this a project that makes the XP wiki look like a stroll in the park. While I really like the idea as finally the format to a workable successor to CFAN fit in with the balkianized community, it would involve a lot of work led by people who are ostentizably bearly part of the community as is. I mean, seriously, I've read maybe two dozen stories in the last year, have been completely left behind by the comics, and have very little intention of producing new comic fic. So to the outsider, this could easily seem like a gasp for continued relevence or something.
I don't want to dampen enthusiasm, but it is important to understand the kind of scale this project would entail. To my mind, we'd need at least 6-8 people to get this off the ground before the first lick of content hits the pages, and that includes some people with serious pull, past and present. I like the idea a lot, which is why I don't want to make it turn out as a joke.