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Wiki celebrating fandom and fanfiction history

Laura Hale is a fan fiction junkie. She started writing fandom articles about "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, and soon began developing online resources for fanfiction writers and readers. Laura founded FanHistory.com, a wiki documenting the history of fandom, in May 2006.

Fanfiction is fiction produced by fans of scripted television shows, movies and other original sources. Fanfiction writers create new stories that draw on the characters and plots of the original creations they love.

Fan History serves as a resource for fans to document the history of their fandoms, share news and promote their own projects. Fan History also helps researchers better understand the fan community.

Fan History has more than 765,000 articles. It's the largest MediaWiki outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. Fan History averages 2,113 visitors daily.

Fan History grew from the Writers University's history department on FanFiction.Net. Hale founded Writers University in 2000. The site went through various phases, during which Hale, a Masters of Education in Instructional Technology, continued her research in fan fiction and fandom.

In 2006, Fan History was born as a wiki. There's no notability requirement on Fan History because Hale believes everything matters in preserving and documenting fandom history.

Over the last three years, Fan History has worked hard to expand its fandom content through a partnership with FanWorksFinder. In 2008, it ran the FanFictionNetBot, which added over a half-million articles to the site.

Fan History is constantly expanding its categories. Earlier this year, Fan History's zine category added over 1,600 articles, making it one of the largest sources of its kind online.

Hale hopes to grow Fan History's contributor base, develop content and improve traffic. As a result, Fan History has no revenue. Fan History has one full-time employee, one intern and four unpaid administrators. The Fan History staff does some free advising for wikis, fan fiction archives and bloggers and is hoping to expand their consulting work.