[HPFGU-OTChatter] Newbie portal need?

[Heidi Tandy]

Kristin, it usually depends on how one enters the fandom. If you google and come across HPfGU.org.uk, you can read through the Bigfile and see resources to fanfic and TLC, among other things. If you get brought in via fanfic on FictionAlley, there's a link to our Newbie's Guide on every page. Sugarquill has a Portkey page, again with links to a variety of sites. If you start on the slash side, VeelaInc has a large and link-filled glossary. 


As one of the people who've worked on the FictionAlley Newbie's Guide, I know we're always looking for ways to improve it and make it more useful, but in part because the fandom is so large and sprawling and includes people from 7 to 70 (I'm also on staff at The Leaky Cauldron and I know what letters we get) it's hard to be fully comprehensive, which is one reason FA focuses on stuff that appeals to people over 13 and has a "reading level" that is generally higher still. But suggestions for things to add are definitely welcome either here or offlist. 

There have been effotrs made in the past by people like Ali Wildgoose of Diagon Alley to have webrings and lists of sites, and fandom-wide projects like Nimbus - 2003, the Letterbox Project of this spring and the 24,000$ raised by visitors to tlc back in December show that the fandom is happy to get together for projects at times. 

None of this is meant to say that a comprehensive Newbie's Guide isn't worth the work - I mean, I certainly hope FA's is comprehensive (see above) but it is a rather large project and yes, somewhat repetitious of things that do already exist in various incarnations. 


Heidi Tandy
*Ask me about Nimbus - 2003*
Http://www.hp2003.org 


-----Original Message-----
From: "Kristen" <kristen_tort at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:45:16 
To:HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Newbie portal need?

Real-To:  "Kristen" <kristen_tort at hotmail.com>

I realize this maybe OT for even the OT-Chatter list, but I need to 
bounce an HP related website idea off of all of you. I am new to the 
fandom (been active online for a month) and I obviously came in here 
knowing nothing about how the HP online community works. I don't by 
any means claim to be an expert now, but I have sucessfully navigated 
my way around and definitely have a feel for the fandom. 

I was wondering if a website that just kind of hit the high points of 
the "What's what" of the HP online fandom might be of interest. I 
suppose it could be used by anyone actually, but have it kind of 
geared to those who don't know where to go if they are an adult or a 
teen and want to discuss the books or where to find novel length fan 
fiction. I would plan to have links to places like TLC and 
mugglenet.com and maybe some fanfic recommendations and such. 

I haven't really drawn up an outline or anything. I just have been 
thinking about this for the past few days. For the past 5 years I 
have been very involved in the X Files fandom and there were several 
of those types of websites available. I haven't seen any for HP, but 
of course that doesn't mean they aren't out there. 

If this is a stupid idea or there are a million of these sites out 
there I apologize. If there is an interest, please let me know and 
maybe I can recruit a few "oldbies" to give me some insight to make 
my idea a reality. Thanks!

Kristen



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