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The baseline rule seems to be "being published on the internet doesn't make it a different medium". So if it doesn't actually do anything outside the possibility of print literature, it's still literature.
The exceptions are largely for cases of media that didn't have a pre-web counterpart in the first place, or where it's not clear which medium that is (are webcomics the web version of comic books, or of newspaper comics?)
Edited by wingedcatgirl Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
For web novels which got adapted to something else, the version being troped is often not the web novel, but with no adaptations involved, OP's query obviously goes in Literature/.
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It still goes in Literature/. The WebOriginal/ namespace is intended for works that don't fit neatly into any other namespace, but original online fiction goes in Literature/ while derivative works go in Fanfic/.
There may be some such pages in the WebOriginal/ namespace, but a lot of pages in that namespace were put there before the creation of more specific namespaces like WebVideo/ and WebAnimation/.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Just for the sake of clarity, I should perhaps point out that I was asking about what folders examples should be placed into more so than I was about what namespaces new pages should be made under.
That said, the impression I get here is that regardless of any other details, anything that is or should be under the Literature/ namespace should go in the Literature folder. That right?
^ We finally had a Wiki Talk and crowner
for this very question. The consensus was that, yes, Web Serial Novels and any Web-based Literature goes under the Literature folder. So your impression turned out to be correct.
I am aware that Web Serial Novels go under the Literature category, not Web Original, but does the same apply to all online literature? For example, say you've got a collection of short stories with no shared plot but a common setting or narrative theme — that wouldn't be a serial novel, but would it still be considered to go under Literature?