SF Editor Watch

[netmouse]

So... over at the SFAwardsWatch site we're about to start hosting what has previously been the Hugo Editor Wiki but which we are probably going to call SFEditorWatch. This is a site where editors (aand fans) will be able to log in and edit their own or others' entries listing what books they have edited in each year, so those of us who nominate and vote for awards like the long form editor Hugo Award have more information to go on.

I'm debating what kind of system to set up for this. I'm most familiar with mediawiki but something like PMWiki might be a little more user friendly. Then again, if I set up my own system I can enforce consistency in how people input data (thus possibly introducing problems when peoples' data doesn't match my forms). Phpwiki is nice in that it has a MySQL database behind it. I've never set one up before. Have you? What do you recommend/what should I think about as I go to do this? Advise me! (Thanks!)

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Comments

[pnh.livejournal.com]

I just think you should call it something other than "SFEditorWatch," which sounds like a site for stalkers.

Yes, I'm joking, but not entirely. Being a sane and sensible human being, you probably don't quite grasp the frequency with which editors do, in fact, wind up having to deal with creepy stalky people with boundary issues. "SFEditorWatch" sounds like a site I'd run screaming away from.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. So noted. I was just following the format of SFawardswatch, as we talked about what domain to use. I can see how the creepiness factor goes up when it sounds like you're talking about watching an individual person... But sfartwatch seems fine, and sfbookwatch isn't creepy, yet doesn't quite capture the sense of a place to go find out about editing that's been done. A thorough book index would ideally include editors, but that's not a project I'm up for taking on just yet (and it's being done elsewhere). SFeditingwatch seems awkward to me.

Do you have any suggestions of an alternative name you wouldn't run screaming away from?