Do you edit Fanlore or would you like to do so? Now is the time to learn how. The OTW's Wiki-committee will host an introductory chat to editing Fanlore. The chat is aimed at both current and new editors.

Drumroll, please... it's time to announce the winners of the server name poll which we conducted a while back! In this post you'll find the winning names -- and also some metadiscussion about why it's taken us so long to announce the winners of the poll.

First, we want to thank everyone who worked on orchestrating the process, collecting name nominations, and creating the slate of names on which fans voted -- and especially everyone who cast a vote in the poll and let us know which names please you most.

Here are the names which won the vote:

To support the March Drive we asked a few members of our community to write a guest blog about their views on the OTW. Thank you to Aja for contributing this post!

Recently, I've had two of my default assumptions about fandom overturned.

Assumption #1: The Powers That Be know what fandom is.

In May, I attended the first annual Book Blogger convention, where a room full of publishing reps were asked, “How many of you know what fanfiction is?” I was stunned when less than half of them raised their hands.