While fans are welcome to edit Fanlore at any time of the year, this month the Wiki Committee is organizing a special event. Stub September is a challenge for anyone, newcomers and seasoned Fanlore editors alike, to pick a stub and expand on it. A stub is an article on Fanlore that is under-developed and missing important information. Right now, there are nearly 1800 existing pages on Fanlore that are already identified as stubs. You're invited to use the list to find a page where you know something about the topic, and edit the page to add your new information. It's as simple as that.

In addition to the identified stubs, there are also pages that are missing specific examples to define or illustrate the page topic. This category, examples wanted, is much shorter and needs more specific information. If you know of any examples, just add them to the page.

Feel free to post links to the articles you work on and let others know about the project! If you haven't yet tried your hand at writing something for Fanlore, Stub September is a good month to add more information to existing Fanlore articles without having to start your own page from scratch. And you might also find out -- it's fun!

If you have questions about Fanlore, or how to get started you can contact the Wiki Committee or stop by their Dreamwidth account.

The Organization for Transformative Works is celebrating its fifth anniversary! From September 4 to September 6, we're holding trivia and participation contests across our various news outlets, in order to celebrate and publicize the OTW's various projects and organization history.

See our first announcement post for more details on the contest rules, and if you have any questions please post them there.

Post #4: Link us to a pic or post where you tell us what job a character from your favorite fandom might take on if they were part of the OTW.

The Organization for Transformative Works is celebrating its fifth anniversary! From September 4 to September 6, we're holding trivia and participation contests across our various news outlets, in order to celebrate and publicize the OTW's various projects and organization history.

See our first announcement post for more details on the contest rules, and if you have any questions please post them there.

Post #2: Reply to us telling us what the OTW means to you, either in writing or through a picture.

This week the OTW is reaching a milestone. On September 5, 2012 we'll be celebrating five years as the Organization for Transformative Works, and we're hoping that you'll join us in celebrating our various projects and organization history!

Starting at 23:00 UTC on September 4, we're going to hold trivia and participation contests across our various OTW News outlets. In order to give you more choice about how, when, and where to participate, these contests will vary by site and will appear across multiple timezones. So if you read this news on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Dreamwidth or the transformativeworks.org website you will be seeing different posts until 23:00 UTC on September 6. (Our Tumblr site will be holding its own celebration during its First Friday event on September 7.)

As prizes for our contest winners, we will be offering invites to the Archive of Our Own (AO3) on each of our contest sites. So if you know someone who has been wanting one, let them know they should stop by and take part!

What Will Happen Where

On LiveJournal and Dreamwidth we will be making three separate posts across different timezones. Each post will contain five trivia questions based on the OTW's various projects. All comments to these posts will be screened. You are welcome to answer any or all three sets of trivia questions but multiple responses from a given username will only be counted as one entry to the contest, regardless of whether you got one or all sets of questions correct. When the contest ends at 23:00 UTC on September 6, we will count how many participants answered any of the three sets of questions correctly. All participants with correct entries will then win an invite sent to the email address of their choice.

On Twitter, Facebook, and transformativeworks.org we will be making five posts across different timezones. Each post will contain either a blurb about the OTW for retweeting, sharing or reblogging, or a small writing or image challenge related to the OTW. Anyone who links us to their responses to all five posts will win an invite sent to the email address of their choice.

Winners will be notified by our response to their winning comment. The notification process should be complete by September 8, and all winners will have to provide us with an email address for their invitation. (They can designate a friend to receive the invite if they wish.)

If you have questions let us know in comments or through our contact form.

Also, if you would like to help us share our celebration, we have some nifty icons created by our Communications volunteer, Rachel. Thank you to everyone who has supported the OTW in these past five years.

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These celebration contests are void where prohibited