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1. Another thing from the flist: I've been followingwrangletangle's posts about AO3 tagging, looking at femslash/female-centric tags during February (via ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
halfamoon). Anyway, you might like to look at this post about the Women Being Awesome tag. It's canonical and can be used to filter works helpfully and it can be improved by more people using it (where relevant) and by adding individual "x is awesome" sub-tags. Once they've been used by three users, they're canonical.
So I added quite a few people where it seemed appropriate to me for my fic on AO3. And it does seem to me that if some of you had a moment to do the same, we could quite easily improve matters and make, say, "Leela is awesome" canonical (because she is, anyway). Or Romana, Martha, Liz, Barbara etc. etc. If you're wondering, when the post was made only five women had canonical "awesome" tags and none of them were from DW. You can also see who else I tagged there, too.
But, anyway, I realise I'm strange and like thinking about tags and things and also have the time to do such low-level things at the moment.
2. Not a thing I forgot, but in rl news, I went to see an ex-colleague at the library today about volunteering soon for an hour every fortnight (doing something not too taxing, I'm a great volunteer, ha). So that's good. We'll see how it goes, but it's definitely a Step Forward. \o/ (Also, she said at the end how much she and everyone missed both of us children's librarians now we're not around to spread glitter about the place. ♥) It's also just a tad ironic, really, isn't it? Never mind.
1. Another thing from the flist: I've been following
wrangletangle's posts about AO3 tagging, looking at femslash/female-centric tags during February (via halfamoon). Anyway, you might like to look at this post about the Women Being Awesome tag. It's canonical and can be used to filter works helpfully and it can be improved by more people using it (where relevant) and by adding individual "x is awesome" sub-tags. Once they've been used by three users, they're canonical. So I added quite a few people where it seemed appropriate to me for my fic on AO3. And it does seem to me that if some of you had a moment to do the same, we could quite easily improve matters and make, say, "Leela is awesome" canonical (because she is, anyway). Or Romana, Martha, Liz, Barbara etc. etc. If you're wondering, when the post was made only five women had canonical "awesome" tags and none of them were from DW. You can also see who else I tagged there, too.
But, anyway, I realise I'm strange and like thinking about tags and things and also have the time to do such low-level things at the moment.
2. Not a thing I forgot, but in rl news, I went to see an ex-colleague at the library today about volunteering soon for an hour every fortnight (doing something not too taxing, I'm a great volunteer, ha). So that's good. We'll see how it goes, but it's definitely a Step Forward. \o/ (Also, she said at the end how much she and everyone missed both of us children's librarians now we're not around to spread glitter about the place. ♥) It's also just a tad ironic, really, isn't it? Never mind.
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Date: 12 Feb 2013 07:50 pm (UTC)Just to clarify, tags don't automatically become canonical after three uses - a wrangler has to go in and make them canonical and sometimes in large fandoms, that can be a slow process. I'm hoping to have some time to spend sorting freeforms this weekend, but we'll see.
Also, I believe we'll be recruiting again soon, if you're interested in tackling tag wrangling from the back end. ;)
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Date: 12 Feb 2013 08:24 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm pretty sure
Rl is probably going to be v unpredictable from now on, but it's defnitely something I'd consider if things level out okay.
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Date: 12 Feb 2013 08:32 pm (UTC)You don't necessarily have to choose popular fandoms...90% of mine are the sort where if I get one tag a month I'm surprised. And I don't advise grabbing as many fandoms as I have accumulated.