Fan History Wiki Blog Posts by Laura Hale

Fan History Wiki Blog Posts by Laura Hale were made between March 2008 and March 2011, and reflected Hale's promotion of topics related to her Fan History Wiki, marketing and fandom in general, and her conflicts with Fanlore.
There is one post dated November 1999 that must be an error.
==Some Sample Posts: 2008==
===How not to appear on Fan History (April 28, 2008)===
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This post may contain the same or similar text as the deleted fanthropology post made in July 2008. See Laura_Hale_(fan)#Outing.
===Power in fandom (July 9, 2008)===
Link: Power in fandom
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=== Funding your fansite (July 11, 2008)===
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See more at Funding Your Fansite.
=== Communicating with the fandom community (July 15, 2008)===
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See more at Communicating with the fandom community.
=== A Statement from Fan History (July 28, 2008)===
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See the entire statement at A Statement from Fan History (2008).
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===Fan History is growing! (September 18, 2008)===
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This post is a description of Fan History Wiki and includes the 60-second pitch by Laura. See Fan History Elevator Pitch.
==Sample Posts: 2009==
===Archive of our Own vs. FanLib: Why they are not succeeding (June 29, 2009) ===
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It was posted to Fan History Wiki's blog on June 29, 2009, and aside from the title, does not mention Archive of Our Own, simply referring to it as "this group," "people," and "they."
It includes the number of fanfics posted to Archive of Our Own as of June 29, 2009 as compared to the number posted to FanLib as proof of AO3's failure. Note that AO3 did not enter open beta until November 2009.
FanLib itself had folded by August 2008.
===Fandom as a business (October 27, 2009)===
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=== Don't do that! TPTB might find out! (November 13, 2008)===
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===Announcing paid article services for Fan History! (January 1, 2009)===
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===Women don't write fandom history? (January 18, 2009)===
Link: Women don't write fandom history?
===The market and the medium are NOT separate conversations (February 10, 2009) ===
The market and the medium are NOT separate conversations
The essay's topics are anime, fandom and profit, and fanart. The essay is commenting on, and links to: Chicks On Anime Fansubs (Pt 2) by B. Dong, C. Brienza, S. Pocock, posted Feb 10th 2009.
===On privacy, blogging, and hazardous misconceptions (February 16, 2009)===
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Two topics: "Public postings are exactly that: PUBLIC... Linking happens. Deal with it."
===The problems FanLore faces are not unique: Learning from Fan History's experience (April 10, 2009)===
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This post quotes from a LiveJournal post, a post by Elfwreck musing on how to fit their half-remembered info on gaming and RPGs into Fanlore's structure, which was more geared toward media fandom.,elfwreck. I forgot to post yesterday., posted 6 April 2009 to insanejournal. (now locked) by a Fanlore contributor who voiced some criticisms of the site as a starting point for discussing issues related to running a fan wiki. Note that Laura was unhappy with the OTW's decision to start Fanlore because its scope was similar to her own wiki. At the time some people involved in the OTW probably weren't too happy with her or her wiki either. See Conflict with Fanlore and Laura Hale Controversies. Also of possible relevance is that a few months before this post Laura tried and failed to have the Fanlore article about her deleted. There's nothing obviously grudgewanky in the post itself, so it's only the history between Laura and Fanlore and the OTW that makes the motive behind this post suspect.from user:aethel's point of view, at least.
===It's the next big thing! Or, maybe not. (April 2009)===
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The topic is Dreamwidth.
=== The problems of writing personal histories in a wiki… (April 21, 2009)===
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The post was written in response to a post by User:Elfwreck musing on how to fit their half-remembered info on gaming and RPGs into Fanlore's structure, which was more geared toward media fandom.elfwreck. I forgot to post yesterday., posted 6 April 2009 to insanejournal.
===Why Fan History won't be moving to Wikia any time soon (September 20, 2009)===
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===Putting aside our differences for the greater good of fandom (October 7, 2009)===
Link: Putting aside our differences for the greater good of fandom
===What does the Organization for Transformative Works look like? (November 2009)===
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This essay contains a lot of statistics and was posted to Fan History Wiki's blog.
===The outing of Astolat and Fan History (December 31, 2009)===
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The post is a response to a much-criticized incident that occurred in mid-2008, which other fans argued was outing, and Laura argues here was not. Some topics discussed: Outing, Linking to Public Fan Sites. Incidentally, her argument is very similar to the argument Will Shetterly had made about his outing of LiveJournal user coffeeandink during RaceFail 09; both were in the vein of "if it's public, you can link to it", but ran counter to a community norm in LiveJournal fandom, where there was an assumption of a degree of safety in posting RL name info to a personal account that was not google-indexed, even if the post wasn't friendslocked. Like Tumblr after it, on LJ you were expected to know not to publicize information that looked private, but keep it in the fandom. Laura Hale's arguments that people should know better, ostensibly reasonable, were considered disingenuous by many. See Laura_Hale_(fan)#Outing and Fan_History_Wiki#Controversy. See also "On privacy, blogging, and hazardous misconceptions" and "How not to appear on Fan History"
Comment to this post at the Fan History Blog:
Nile Flores, a Fan History Wiki volunteer, said: 
Hale added this undated addendum: 
Note: Hale stated in December 2008, a full year earlier: Hale linked her legal name multiple times in her wiki, including a link to her professional resume.
==Sample Posts: 2010==
===A history and my take on The Slash Debate (January 20, 2010)===
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This post is, in part, commentary on Man on Man: The New Gay Romance....
=== Slash is not gay: Homosexuality, class and fan fiction communities, A historical perspective (January 27, 2010)===
It was written in 2006, posted to Fan History Wiki at some point, and posted again on the Fan History blog on January 27, 2010.
See: Slash is not gay: Homosexuality, class and fan fiction communities, A historical perspective.
=== Fandom history then and now (February 25, 2010)===
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==Notes==
==References==
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