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Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (2019)
Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate.
One wrangler, who goes by the handle spacegandalf, pointed me to the example of a character from an audio drama called The Penumbra Podcast who didn't have an official name in text for several episodes after he was introduced. For example, seemingly innocuous words like " slash" and "" do not refer to a punctuation mark or a citrus fruit in fannish contexts, and tag wranglers are already well aware that machine translation can only manage the literal, not the subcultural meanings. When technologists lament the increasing dominance of the internet by a few large corporations, there's a tendency to look for counterinspiration, if you will, in collaborative projects like Wikipedia or open source software.
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