Weboriginal namespace

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:21:26 PM by Jicragg

Personally, I'm in favour of just doing away with WebOriginal/ - since it's too broad of a category. Basically, it seems to be a dumping place for everything on the web that doesn't already have their own more specific namespace.

ETA: I agree. Definitely in favour of a WebAnimation/ namespace. Web non-fanfic literature (such as the the stories at Fiction Press) would probably just go under Literature/

edited 22nd Mar '12 6:02:10 PM by movie007

We could still keep it for those that don't fit.

Also, would Abridged Series count for web animation?

Web-novels currently go under literature (I made a thread like, a year ago, and that was the consensus), but I like the idea of turning Web Original into a sort of "supermedium," with submedias of webcomics, webanimation, webnovels, and so on.

They do? I don't remember that, and I usually remember policy threads fairly well.

I think you were one of the first posters, Deboss. One sec, lemme see if I can find it.

Well, not the first, but you were definitely involved.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:19:17 PM by Jicragg

I always thought of podcasts as Radio.

Maybe that's because I only listen to podcasts that also air on the radio, though.

Yeah, I think it would help to split it up; it's covering way too broad a category and will only get worse. Web Animation, Web Site, Web Series, Podcast are the divisions that come to mind.

Seems like a good idea. As for The Abridged Series, I think the lot of them could be in Fan Fic, given that they're not really "original" in a sense that they're often an Affectionate Parody to their source material.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:18:33 PM by Jicragg

Fan comic is another type of fan work. Now they usually just go under Web Comic.

So...should we get a crowner here, talk about it a bit more, or what?

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:18:03 PM by Jicragg

I'd imagine we could just start with a single-prop "Should the Web Original namespace be split into multiple namespaces (Web Animation, Web Novel, etc)?" I'm just a little leery because wiki talk threads don't usually get crowners.

No wonder I don't remember it, it was so short. And we didn't actually do anything.

We've done it for the other Namespaces just to get them done.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:17:57 PM by Jicragg

Sorry, I realized too late that "consensus" implied more than "A couple guys and a mod said to put it in literature."

I think we should add candidates, may the current crowner succeed, that should be put into consideration.

Goes without saying that WebAnimation/ and WebSeries/ is a good idea.

If I got an idea for a crowner candidate, it would be FanVid/ for fan videos and The Abridged Series genre otherwise not accounted for in Machinima/.

Yeah, some of the Web Original content is known strictly by their creator name. Of course, lonelygirl15 is a borderline case - since it did start out just being about a girl and her vlog, with "lonelygirl15" being the vlogger's username. Fred is probably another one, since I think it is the stage name of the actor who plays Fred - and it's sort of a vlog parody.

edited 26th Mar '12 2:30:43 PM by movie007

So for how much more time are we going to have this crowner here?

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:11:27 PM by Jicragg

Something like FanVid/ or whatever, as I had posted on this thread before.

Of course we don't have to bring Web Comic to a vote... :P

edited 28th Mar '12 8:57:36 AM by EarlOfSandvich

The lack of orthogonality in the distinctions confuzzles me... what is the difference between Web Series and all of the others? (Web (Serial) Novel and Web Comics in particular)

Derp. I'm used to it being "live action"...

edited 28th Mar '12 9:14:37 AM by SilentReverence

I believe WebSeries/ would be a counterpart to Series/, i.e. live action shows which come out in a serial format.