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Sounds like a lot of work, so you would need to be highly motivated.

• gostsamo 2y ago
  It would be lots of work, but it could be easier if there are enough volunteers.
  • photonthug 2y ago
    This is a good idea, as evidenced by the existing fan wikis. People love to geek out cataloging / cross referencing their favorite worlds, and it’s not like the impulse itself is going to be limited to Harry Potter or marvel. For highbrow literary stuff though, expertise might be extra helpful and extra rare. Maybe the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy might be a better collaborative model than fan wikis or Wikipedia. Idk for sure, but I assume contributing an SEP write-up might be somewhat more of a resume-builder than contributing to other places, which may help to incentivize experts to contribute. The other problem is just copyright. People don’t expect fan wikis to include a lot of primary material naturally, but it would be frustrating to try and get new insight to literature while constantly pausing to find the source material. There’s lots of poetry in the public domain, but if you start thinking about recent stuff that’s worth a deep dive (say the postmodern canon) it gets harder.
    • gostsamo 2y ago
      This is just an idea, so any model is possible at this stage. The map would be attracting expert contributions only if the experts think that it is benefitial to them, while fans would do it just for the joy of doing it. Regarding copyright and contemporary poetry - if the copyright holders find the exposure antithetical to their interests, they will be skipped and that's it. I know though that even now I'm reading books and not catching stuff. I believe that such a resource might enrich the experience of many readers and that's why I'm toying with the idea every now and then.