Feminist SF Wiki:Visions of an FSFwiki

See also FSFwiki:Mission; for ideas about technical and interface improvements, see Suggestions.

What's your vision of the FSFwiki? a reference like wikipedia? a reference like the Star Trek wiki? a source of theory? a home for various polemical essays? an experiment in feminist processing? something else entirely? a resource of works about feminist sf? a resource of feminist perspectives on any sf? What directions should we go in?

• Information in another languages, other than english.

• "feminist SF" subgenre
  • Encyclopedic information about feminist SF writers and works (books, movies, etc.).
  • yes - great detail about the "feminist SF" subgenre itself --LQ 09:45, 16 March 2007 (PDT)

• "feminist criticism of SF":
  • Feminist critiques and analyses of all kinds of works, whether feminist, sexist, or somewhere in between.
  • yes - significant resource for feminist criticism of SF --LQ 09:45, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
  • Information that highlights the intersections : language, ethnicity, amateur/pro status, genres, sexuality and gender gender gender.
  • Basically a source of feminist criticism on works of interest to feminist SF. Works of interest to feminist SF can be works that are "feminist SF", sexist works, works which offer a unique critical insight of some other kind, or are influential and significant works, generally, and therefore feminist analysis is important. --LQ 09:07, 19 February 2007 (PST)
  • Basic information, terms, & history, for a grounding of understanding feminist SF criticism -- so basic lit & film crit terms; info about major theorists and women's rights activists. --LQ 09:07, 28 February 2007 (PST)

• a feminist wiki about SF:
  • A reference resource about SF with embedded feminist analysis, like the lists of characters in wikipedia or the Star Trek wiki, but with various feminist takes and commentaries and analyses of the characterizations and treatments of the characters. --LQ 07:37, 10 December 2006 (PST)
  • Many more reading lists and reading guides, top 10 lists or top 20 lists of all sorts. It would be awesome, for example, to collect lists from children's librarians of what they recommend to girls and young women - and I don't just mean lists from today but collect those lists over time. --Liz Henry 13:02, 16 December 2006 (PST)
  • comprehensiveness about SF but with a feminist perspective - so, for example, while in sexist works minor male writers get included but only "major" women writers get included, here we would not include minor men just because they have penises. major male writers get included because a basic SFnal resource isn't complete without them, and because there is likely some significant feminist criticism to be done.

• other
• Community resources--for creators (writers, game designers, artists) and consumers (readers, gamers, watchers) and everyone in between.

• women's history:
  • biographical info and stories about women in SF; stuff that might not make it into wikipedia or official biographies. --Liz Henry 12:34, 17 February 2007 (PST)
    • Yes -- we want to be completist for all feminist SF topics. --LQ 09:07, 19 February 2007 (PST)
  • Hosting space and public archive of old fsf zines or ephemera of any kind. Zine editors or authors could scan their zines and email to us, or make accounts and upload material. --Liz Henry 13:05, 16 December 2006 (PST)
    • Yes I want to host -- we have http://archives.feministsf.net/ . I want to get all the old FBN columns online, and other feminist sf ephemera.--LQ 18:53, 19 December 2006 (PST)

• A place to collect links to & compile history of discussions going on in the fsf blogosphere. I think it is important to gather this and organize timelines and summaries as part of our feminist intellectual history.--Liz Henry 13:05, 16 December 2006 (PST)
  • I also want to actually spider and archive this stuff. But that's a different project, for http://archives.feministsf.net/ --LQ 18:53, 19 December 2006 (PST)
  • As a source of bibliographies & a host to gather together discussions -- creating webliographies -- very valuable. --LQ 09:07, 19 February 2007 (PST)
• Not sure where to put this but for now, take a look at 2 things, [1] and [2] for some super awesome advice on wiki process--Liz Henry 18:13, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

• an encyclopedia of imaginary people/places/things of particular interest to feminists (with analysis of them) --LQ 09:49, 16 March 2007 (PDT)
• one-stop shopping for feminist and other important critical/political approaches to SF --LQ 07:12, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
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