Interview with the Super-wiki admin team

Authors

  • Deborah Kaplan Tufts University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0200

Keywords:

Collective authorship, Fan community, Television, Wiki

Abstract

Interview with Hope, Leandra, Jules (aka Missyjack), and Vanae of the Super-wiki admin team on the wiki's creation, its content, and the challenges unique to crowd-sourced information and multiauthorship, conducted by Deborah Kaplan.

Author Biography

Deborah Kaplan, Tufts University

Deborah Kaplan is an independent scholar writing in the fields of fan studies, children's literature, and romance. She is also a digital archivist at Tufts University. She reviews for a number of journals, including Kirkus, The Horn Book Guide, and The Journal of Web Librarianship. As a fan, Deborah runs the Diana Wynne Jones mailing list, and has been active in the fanfiction communities for a number of fandoms, including Buffy and Due South.

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Published

2010-03-15

Issue

Vol. 4 (2010)

Section

Interview

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