You might have noticed the new "categories" feature on this site. I mean this:

What are categories? Categories are types of content -- main Q&A and Meta are the two that all sites share, but the feature allows sites to build other things too -- blogs, question sandboxes, wikis... and even material for critique or just to share. Meta Codidact has a category for site suggestions, for example.

Over on our site on SE, people sometimes posted short stories, excerpts from longer works, and poetry on meta or in chat (sometimes in response to contests or challenges). Neither of those was ideal, but those were the tools we had. I propose that we create a "members' work" category here, where we can post work we'd like to share. If we revive contests, we can tie that in too -- contests entries can be posted in the fiction category and linked from the contest, same as if you were going to post your entry on your personal blog or as a Google doc or whatever.

Two questions:

1. "Members' work" seems a little clunky as a name. I was originally thinking of "fiction" but that would exclude poetry. Of course it also excludes technical writing, journalism, and other types of writing, but fiction and poetry are the kinds of work people actually posted on the old site. What should we call this category? "Gallery", maybe?

2. The general license on this site is CC-BY-SA, but authors might want to impose a more-restrictive license for creative works (as opposed to Q&A). We can specify a tighter license for this category if we want. What license would people want to see? It must, of course, permit this site to publish the work. I'm not an expert on licenses. Regardless of license you of course retain the copyright to your work; licenses are about who else can use it and how, not about ownership.

posted over 4 years ago

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4y ago

Monica Cellio‭ staff

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