#fanlore editing

Welcome to Fanlore’s annual celebration of Fandom in Color! Throughout the month of July, we’ll be spotlighting favorite characters of color, and highlighting pairings, events, discussions, and more.

Both characters and fans of color are often overlooked in fandom spaces, and we’re trying to expand their presence on Fanlore. We work on this year-round, but in July we ask specifically for your help by sharing and editing the pages we highlight this month and adding new ones that are not yet documented on Fanlore.

Fanlore should be inclusive of all aspects of fandom and all participants in it. We hope you enjoy what we share this month, and we welcome you to join us in documenting even more.

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Fandom Friendships Challenge

Fanhackers is about the discussion of ideas on fandom and one of the core ideas is about the friends we’ve made along the way. From November 11th to 24th, join us and Fanlore in a brand-new collaboration to add content to community themed articles on Fanlore! The theme is choosen to celebrate our upcoming Fandom Friendships zine, which you can learn more about here.

Fanlore is finding a new way to thank our editors: Milestone badges!

Fanlore is nothing without our hard-working volunteer editors, who create pages, categorize files, update fandom information, and more. Now when editors reach certain editing milestones, like making 10 edits, 100 edits, etc., they will be able to claim triumphant new badges.

Are you a Fanlore editor? To find out how to check your editing statistics, and how to claim your badges, please visit our help page.

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As part of Fanlore’s Fandom in Color month, we’re holding two editing chats over on our Discord on Sun July 19 at 4am UTC (What time is that for me?) and Sun July 19 at 3pm UTC (What time is that for me?}.

What is an “editing chat”? It’s a real-time chat where everyone works on doing some Fanlore editing, usually themed around pages of a certain topic. There’s no requirement to have edited Fanlore before, as we’re happy to show you the ropes!

The focus will be creating and adding to pages related to fans and fandom of color – characters, communities, events, activism, meta essays, and much more. If you’re passionate about expanding Fanlore’s coverage of this extremely under-served area – so are we! We’d love you to come along and take part. All participants will also earn a fun badge to post to their Fanlore user page!

Use this link to join our Discord server, and we’ll join you there for the chat!

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This month is Fanlore’s fifth annual celebration of Fandom in Color! Throughout the month of July, we’ll be spotlighting the contributions of fans of color to fandom, celebrating favorite characters of color, and highlighting pairings, events, discussions, and more.

Both characters and fans of color are often overlooked in fandom spaces, and we’re trying to expand their presence on Fanlore. We work on this year-round, but in July we ask specifically for your help by sharing and editing the pages we highlight this month and adding new ones that are not yet documented on Fanlore.

Fanlore should be inclusive of all aspects of fandom and all participants in it. We hope you enjoy what we share this month, and we welcome you to join us in documenting even more.

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International Fanworks Day is coming up again! Come join us in celebration of our annual week-long challenge, the IFD Fanlore Challenge! From February 14th to the 20th, come celebrate fandom with us by completing fun editing challenges and quenching your thirst for fandom knowledge through earning our dazzling drink-themed badges!

Not sure where to start, or new to Fanlore? Don’t worry—our challenges are for newcomers and veteran editors alike. For those who are more experienced or are feeling adventurous, each day also comes with a bonus challenge. Complete either, or both, to earn that day’s badge.

Day 1, February 14th: Challenge: Create a Fanlore account! Bonus: Add some information to your user page! Check out examples from other Fanlore users if you’re stuck for what to write about.

Day 2, February 15th: Happy International Fanworks Day! Challenge: Edit a page related to any zine. Bonus: Make an edit to any page related to a podcast fandom, fandom podcast, or podfic.

Day 3, February 16th: Challenge: Add anything to a fan convention page. In October, Fanlore will have a convention-themed month on our social media. Bonus: Add an internal link to a convention page to improve connections between Fanlore pages!

Day 4, February 17th: Challenge: Make an edit to any page relating to a Public Domain Fandom! May will be our “Public Domain Fandoms” themed month on our social media. Bonus: Create a page for a Public Domain Fandom.

Day 5, February 18th: Challenge: Add to any gen ship page and celebrate a friendship you love! Bonus: Add to a femslash ship page, or you can always create a new femslash page! During all of February, we’re highlighting femslash-related pages on our Tumblr, X (Twitter), and BlueSky for our own version of Femslash February.

Day 6, February 19th: Challenge: Expand either a stub or a short page. Bonus: Make a page from a redlink, which are listed here in descending number of “what links here” connections. Redlinks are internal links created to pages that don’t exist yet - creating pages from redlinks helps Fanlore grow!

Day 7, February 20h: Challenge: Make at least 10 individual edits this week - just one each day + a couple more! Tell us in the edit “Summary” on your 10th edit. Bonus: Make 20 edits!

Happy editing, and happy IFD week! Feel free to ask us any questions about the challenge - you can also join our Discord server to chat about the challenge and compare notes with other editors!

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In celebration of our Public DoMay month we'll be hosting two editing chats on our Discord!

Join us on Saturday May 16, 8pm UTC (what time is that for me?) or Sunday May 17, 3pm UTC (what time is that for me?). Come join us for some fun chatting with other editors and help edit Fanlore pages!

Everyone is welcome - you don’t need to have any experience with editing Fanlore to join in! We’ll be happy to help you.

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Did you miss the chance to earn a badge for one of our monthly challenges? Or ran out of time before you completed your bingo card back in June? Well, we welcome you to our newest editing challenge No Fault November!

Join us from November 16th-30th for the No Fault November challenge, a make-up challenge where new and experienced editors can complete challenges they missed the first time around, and collect all those shiny badges they may be missing. This can be from any previous challenge: IFD Challenge, Gardeners Challenge, Bingo Challenge, Stub September, or any of our 2025 monthly challenges!

Please check out our Help Page for more information. Happy editing!

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