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Ok, guys. It's the first day of Autumn and I got a gift for the community:

A wiki with the recommendation lists.


As of now, I've done articles on the general, local and Sci-Fi lists.

The lists are not my making: they are aggregators from the prevous list that have been floating around for a while. So, if some show is missing, don't blame me, but blame yourselves or rather, the Anons who made the lists in the first place.

I leave to your criteria to write some interesting blurbs for the items (that does not need an account). If you want to add an image, and making a Wikia account is too much a hassle for you, e-mail me the pic.

The relevant articles:
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_General
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Short_Stories
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Novellas

http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Sci-Fi

http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_African-American
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_France
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Hispanoamerican
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Japan
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Nordic_Epics
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_Russia
http://recommendations.wikia.com/wiki/Books,_United_States

>> No.1146311
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1146311

Well that's very nice of you.

>> No.1146321

I've never liked the idea of recommendations list, but I can respect the fact that you used pre-existing ones- at least it bears some semblance to global board representation

>> No.1146323

>>1146311
You're welcome.

For the time being, the priority are IMAGES and DESCRIPTIONS

My e-mail address is in, well... the e-mail field (and it's "mail.com", not "gmail.com". Fuck Google).

>> No.1146328

>>1146321
>I've never liked the idea of recommendations list
All boards do it, to avoid the constant recommendation threads, and send those people to one place.

>> No.1146332

hmm this is interesting, but this is pretty subjective stuff

>> No.1146337

>>1146332
>hmm this is interesting, but this is pretty subjective stuff
As I said, I based myself on the existing lists. If there's any subjectivity, blame the ones who made the lists.

And I personally think that the "Books, General" is quite objective, since it was based on about 3 lists.

>> No.1146355

I don't get it. Why not post this on the 4chanlit wiki? (Where the recommendation pics are already posted). Did you seriously transcribe all that shit by hand? Why not sit down and read a book instead?

>> No.1146367

>>1146355
>Where the recommendation pics are already posted
>pictures
Reason right there. The idea is to be throughout, including number of pages and year of original publication. Besides, it gives the board a chance to write some decent descriptions on each title: a justification on why is recommended.

And I was making a favor to a number of people here in 4chan by making a unified hub for recommendations (hence why I bypassed this board's wiki): don't be a fucking dick.

>> No.1146372

>The idea is to be throughout

...thorough?

In any case, the board's wiki IS the hub, and there's no reason not to post the text stuff beside the pics in collapsible boxes or something like that.

>> No.1146373

>>1146328

Not that guy but I don't like recommendation lists either. Most of them are just lists of everything that has been discussed in that board, a massive list that offers no starting point or insight to why those things are discussed. In the case of /m/'s recommended list, its just a smattering of literally every translated /m/ show there is, many of which are not things that should be recommended without seeing other works first and would only confuse the fuck out of you or turn you off. /m/ is particularly bad with this but /co/'s and other boards are pretty bad too. /v/ is currently the only board I've seen with a good recommendation list because they've built an entire wiki around it.

Not only are lists usually too vague or too large for their own good but they deprive the board of discussion and content. On larger, faster moving boards, this may be a problem, but often times its just neckbeards who spend too much time on 4chan complaining that they get the same questions over and over again and are too lazy or fat to foster interest in newcomers and just tell them to fuck off. In that case, people just need to get used to it and contribute more meaningful content and help foster a bigger community. And it's not like /lit/ is fast or big anyway.

Then again, this is a wiki, like /v/'s so it shouldn't have the problems with format and accessibility, I just needed to rant about that bit after seeing /m/'s recommendation list. Still, the point about stealing meaningful discussion from /lit/ and replacing it with a link offsite isn't a good thing in my opinion.

>> No.1146380

This exists.

4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

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>>1146372
>In any case, the board's wiki IS the hub
I meant a hub for a number of different boards, not just one.

>>1146373
>its just a smattering of literally every translated /m/ show there is
No, it isn't. Proof is attached pic.

>/v/ is currently the only board I've seen with a good recommendation list because they've built an entire wiki around it.
Rome wasn't built on a single day, numbnuts. If you haven't noticed, today is the Wiki's first day. In time, a phenomenon similar to /v/'s (ideally) will emerge.

>> No.1146386

>>1146308
We already got one of those bro
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki//lit/_Wiki

>> No.1146393

I don't really like how the recommendations are split up by region... shrug.

>> No.1146398

>>1146393
>I don't really like how the recommendations are split up by region... shrug.
That's how I found them (in 4chanlit Wikia, no less). How would you do it, then?

>> No.1146417

>>1146398
The way you do it is probably way more effective, I just don't really favor it.

I haven't really thought about it much, so this is probably a really shitty way or organizing. I'd probably keep the general, short stories, novellas, sci-fi, and add things like historical, fantasy, non-fiction, perhaps as subcategories of each general categories (Like have a historical fiction setting then short stories, general, non-fiction, and novellas underneath it). Not so much focus on what is from which era and location, but what kind of books they are.

>> No.1146429

>>1146417
>I haven't really thought about it much, so this is probably a really shitty way or organizing. I'd probably keep the general, short stories, novellas, sci-fi, and add things like historical, fantasy, non-fiction, perhaps as subcategories of each general categories (Like have a historical fiction setting then short stories, general, non-fiction, and novellas underneath it). Not so much focus on what is from which era and location, but what kind of books they are.
It sounds interesting, but implementation would be a clusterfuck.