#nile

Let's get into even more information and some questions you might be having:

Is there a particular way I should write stuff to post on Fanlore? Is there anything that's not allowed?

Fanlore's editorial vibe is based around what they call Plural Point of View. The basic idea is that Fanlore isn't trying to establish any one definitive "truth" but instead aims to reflect the multiple simultaneous truths of fans' differing perspectives and experiences. Great Fanlore edits document the range of viewpoints on a given thing without judgment or editorializing. More details including do's and don'ts on the Plural Point of View policy page.

Unlike Wikipedia, Fanlore doesn't have a notability requirement. As they put it, "if a contributor believes something is worthy of documenting, then we fully support documenting it."

All that said, it's not 100% anything goes.

Fanlore is about documenting fandom itself, not the canon that inspires it, so it's not a place for detailed plot summaries or other infodumps about canon.

Any AI-generated content (why?? making stuff is the fun of fandom!) shouldn't be a large portion of an article, and it needs a citation that includes the prompt that generated it.

Don't be shitty. If you need elaboration on that, here are Fanlore's policies on Deceptive Practices and Hostile Editing.

Can I make edits not about Nile and Booker?

Why would you want to?? 😉

For real though, of course! Make edits about other TOG characters, or hell, other fandoms — the only rules are Fanlore's official policies. But we're hoping to encourage more coverage of Nile and Booker so please maybe also do some of that!

If any BoN haters are reading this, it'd be super weird if you took this as an opportunity to go add anti-BoN things to Fanlore, but I guess we can't stop you? Plural point of view and all. Friendly reminder about the hostile editing policy. :)

Are edits reviewed before they go live?

Nope, post whatever you want! Nobody's the boss here. When you click Save Changes your edits will go live.

Once you've posted an edit, it's fair game for future edits — if you make a typo or misremember something, you can go right back in and change it, and if another user wants to add an angle you didn't think of, they can go in and do that too.

Fanlore has volunteers called Gardeners who watch the recent changes across the site and keep things tidy. If you're worried about making an edit that doesn't follow site norms or accidentally messes with the formatting or something, no need to worry, they'll come through and tweak anything that needs it. If you need help, you can call in the Gardeners by inserting this piece of code into the page you want help with, sort of like tagging someone on tumblr.

Can I run edits by someone before posting them?

We've created a BoNlore Project tumblr community page for people to talk to each other about this kind of thing! Post here if you want another pair of eyes on something before you put it on Fanlore, or if you want to brainstorm potential edits, or to brag about BoNlore Project accomplishments like creating a Fanlore account and making your first edits — really anything related to Book of Nile x Fanlore that you want to talk about with fellow BoNers.

BoNlore Project tumblr community

Are there templates I can use to help me?

Take a look around Fanlore for lots of great examples you can use for inspiration / as templates. Click here for Fanlore to serve you up a random page, or here's a list of all the fandoms currently represented on Fanlore. Bigger and longer-running fandoms often have bigger presences on Fanlore and can be a great place to start looking for examples. Dirah has been looking at a lot of Buffy pages for ideas.

Fanlore does have things called templates but heads up that they're code snippets for formatting particular kinds of content on the site, not suggestions about the content itself.

Do I need to make a whole new page?

You do not need to make a whole new page! Edits of all sizes are welcome — you can add new pages if you want to, or simply correct one typo, or anything in between.

If you do want to add a new page, Fanlore requires your user account to have existed for at least 4 hours, as a spam prevention thing. Here's their help guide for starting a new page.

English?

English. Wikipedia is actively edited in 347 languages — 347! including Occitan! — but the much smaller Fanlore is currently only in English.

Do I need to have coding skills to edit?

No coding necessary! For formatting text — such as bold and italics, bulleted lists, links, that sort of thing — Fanlore uses wiki markup, a handful of plain-text formatting conventions designed to be simpler than html. Details are here. If that's too much code-adjacent-ness for you, Fanlore also has a visual editor, similar to AO3.

Can I have a badge?

Hell yeah! If you participate in The BoNlore Project in any way, consider yourself eligible to display this sindirimba creation with pride. Grab it here!

This sounds cool, I'd like to participate! But I'm overwhelmed by a blank page. Help me out with a specific idea of an edit to make?

What's your favorite BoN fic, or art or edit or meta? Add it here!