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Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki de

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.

fortran77 5y ago
There are many "elevator spotters" on YouTube. I can watch elevator videos for hours. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY It's a very interesting community: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8
- jdmichal 5y ago
  I remember seeing an elevator once that lit up both the up and down arrows when arriving if it didn't have a set destination yet. I called it Schroedinger's elevator -- neither going up or down until observed to move.
  - rossdavidh 5y ago
    Were you alive or dead when you noticed this?
    - jdmichal 5y ago
      I was on vacation. So more alive than typical, but dead to those who usually see me around.
- dinkleberg 5y ago
  I love this aspect of HN. I never would’ve known there was a community around a shared interest in elevators, yet this topic has hit the top of HN and a bunch of members of that community have all gathered here.
- thrdbndndn 5y ago
  I think the surprising part (to me at least) isn't there are communities for elevator lovers, but there is a wiki about it on Fandom.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Seems as good a place as any to OT, but does anyone know of a vacuum tube wiki? I may have acquired some Otis elevator power(?) tubes, but have no idea where to go for part schematics or identification. I'd love to build them into a project, but am not sure where to start.
  - brokenmachine 5y ago
    Going even more OT, I watched a mesmerizing and beautiful youtube video about making nixie tubes. I love craftsman videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
- gorgoiler 5y ago
  Fantastic. > watch for hours The call time on the incline elevator… wow you weren’t kidding. Also, at 5m40s is that a domestic clock being used for station timekeeping? Such a shame given the rest of the station design and the amount of time and money that went into it all. Details, people. Details :)
codetrotter 5y ago
Here’s another couple pretty random Fandom wikis that I came across just recently. Linking the specific pages I landed on them at. https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins A fandom wiki about “all species” and it has just short of 1k articles about everything from these two guys to fictional species such as Alien. https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave This one is specifically about the music label Monstercat. It has about 4k pages.
swiley 5y ago
Are you aware of the vim fandom? It seems to be one of the more complete vim wikis and it's probably the most annoying wiki for a piece of open source software ever. I often go without using whatever information is on there just to avoid listening to my fans (heh) spin up.
- anthk 5y ago
  Use lynx/links for that wiki.
fansub 5y ago
Fandom was formerly known as Wikia, the commercial platform launched by Jimmy Wales. This wiki (along with many others) was launched long before the Fandom name.
- smegger001 5y ago
  yeah i don't know why they switched everything from wikia to fandom i think it was a bad call.
  - shagie 5y ago
    Wikia still exists... for example https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki is a fun one to lose an afternoon to. And you thought Graham's number was big... > Graham's number is commonly celebrated as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof, although much larger numbers have since claimed this title (such as TREE(3) and SCG(13)). The smallest Bowersism exceeding Graham's number is Corporal, and the smallest Saibianism exceeding Graham's number is Graatagold.
    - Washuu 5y ago
      Wikia.org was created to house wikis that the maintainers did not wish to have their purpose tainted by the more corporate side(Fandom) of the company. So wikia.org handles wikis that are not about entertainment and more educational.
DonHopkins 5y ago
My experience at science fiction fandom conventions is that a large proportion of everyone's time is spent in elevators.
SilverRed 5y ago
I was impressed and disappointed at the same time. I wanted to find a page explaining the safeties and failure modes of elevators but I didn't find anything.
- Animats 5y ago
  Here's a simple explanation of elevator overspeed safeties.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/UgEL6aeGUrQ https://youtu.be/UgEL6aeGUrQ

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.

fortran77 5y ago

There are many "elevator spotters" on YouTube. I can watch elevator videos for hours. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY It's a very interesting community: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8

jdmichal 5y ago
I remember seeing an elevator once that lit up both the up and down arrows when arriving if it didn't have a set destination yet. I called it Schroedinger's elevator -- neither going up or down until observed to move.
- rossdavidh 5y ago
  Were you alive or dead when you noticed this?
  - jdmichal 5y ago
    I was on vacation. So more alive than typical, but dead to those who usually see me around.
dinkleberg 5y ago
I love this aspect of HN. I never would’ve known there was a community around a shared interest in elevators, yet this topic has hit the top of HN and a bunch of members of that community have all gathered here.
thrdbndndn 5y ago
I think the surprising part (to me at least) isn't there are communities for elevator lovers, but there is a wiki about it on Fandom.
ethbr0 5y ago
Seems as good a place as any to OT, but does anyone know of a vacuum tube wiki? I may have acquired some Otis elevator power(?) tubes, but have no idea where to go for part schematics or identification. I'd love to build them into a project, but am not sure where to start.
- brokenmachine 5y ago
  Going even more OT, I watched a mesmerizing and beautiful youtube video about making nixie tubes. I love craftsman videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
gorgoiler 5y ago
Fantastic. > watch for hours The call time on the incline elevator… wow you weren’t kidding. Also, at 5m40s is that a domestic clock being used for station timekeeping? Such a shame given the rest of the station design and the amount of time and money that went into it all. Details, people. Details :)

codetrotter 5y ago

Here’s another couple pretty random Fandom wikis that I came across just recently. Linking the specific pages I landed on them at. https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins A fandom wiki about “all species” and it has just short of 1k articles about everything from these two guys to fictional species such as Alien. https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave This one is specifically about the music label Monstercat. It has about 4k pages.

swiley 5y ago

Are you aware of the vim fandom? It seems to be one of the more complete vim wikis and it's probably the most annoying wiki for a piece of open source software ever. I often go without using whatever information is on there just to avoid listening to my fans (heh) spin up.

anthk 5y ago
Use lynx/links for that wiki.

fansub 5y ago

Fandom was formerly known as Wikia, the commercial platform launched by Jimmy Wales. This wiki (along with many others) was launched long before the Fandom name.

smegger001 5y ago
yeah i don't know why they switched everything from wikia to fandom i think it was a bad call.
- shagie 5y ago
  Wikia still exists... for example https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki is a fun one to lose an afternoon to. And you thought Graham's number was big... > Graham's number is commonly celebrated as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof, although much larger numbers have since claimed this title (such as TREE(3) and SCG(13)). The smallest Bowersism exceeding Graham's number is Corporal, and the smallest Saibianism exceeding Graham's number is Graatagold.
  - Washuu 5y ago
    Wikia.org was created to house wikis that the maintainers did not wish to have their purpose tainted by the more corporate side(Fandom) of the company. So wikia.org handles wikis that are not about entertainment and more educational.

DonHopkins 5y ago

My experience at science fiction fandom conventions is that a large proportion of everyone's time is spent in elevators.

SilverRed 5y ago

I was impressed and disappointed at the same time. I wanted to find a page explaining the safeties and failure modes of elevators but I didn't find anything.

Animats 5y ago
Here's a simple explanation of elevator overspeed safeties.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/UgEL6aeGUrQ https://youtu.be/UgEL6aeGUrQ