I've been playing around with some daredevil fandom stats in the past, I scraped all the data for the first prompt of the kinkmeme a long, long time ago. (Like when it was just two prompt posts.)
And there is a lot of interesting stuff I and anyone else interested in fandom stats could do with that data but collected over a longer period of time. It's just that that first day, scraping 1,000 prompts took all day long. (That's only a little bit of an exaggeration.) And now there are 5+ kinkmeme prompt pages.
I was thinking, I'd make a spread sheet for the information I want to collect, and then assign anyone interested in helping me a prompt post and page numbers within those prompt posts to fill.
That's 151 prompts pages (when I guessed on my tumblr I guessed 150. For a total between 3650 prompts and 3775 prompts on the kinkmeme. Since each page has a maximum 25 prompts in it.)
Anyone anyone willing to do this with me would be a huge help.
But to give some perspective, if I had 30 people working on this, they would each read through and take notes on 5 pages (125 prompts) which would take less than two hours. It could be done in a day
If, when I had this all sorted out, and people got back to me within a week, it would be done in that time.
If fifteen people were willing to work with me for two hours a day once a week for two weeks it would be done in a half a month. Which is about how long it would take me working my ass off almost every single day in that time span.
And so on, and so forth.
Five people, doing five pages a week would take 6 weeks. (And, actually, since I would be one of those people, I'd only need four others willing to help.)
So, again, this is just my outline for how much work is involved. If anyone is interested in helping I would feel comfortable assigning a minimum of one page (25 prompts).
What this means for anyone helping is they get to reread a random part of the kinkmeme that they maybe haven't seen or don't remember well. I remember the last time I did this I discovered tones of knew prompts that I missed the first time I read through the kinkmeme.
And, for reference, here is some of the data I am collecting. I absolutely want: data posted, main pairing, secondary parining(s)*, other mentioned pairings**,
I would be intrested to look at what gets filled: has it been filled? What is the word count of the fill? What pairing(s) from the original prompt does the fill use.
Also: is it a cross over? (if so, with what?) is a character disabled who isn't normally? is it RPF? is it asking for a polly pairing or is it open to one?
*This is like Matt/Foggy preferred by Matt & Foggy fine. ** This is where the prompts talks about say, Karen/Claire but also mentions that Matt/Foggy is a thing in the background.
Does anyone want to help scrape data by hand?
And there is a lot of interesting stuff I and anyone else interested in fandom stats could do with that data but collected over a longer period of time. It's just that that first day, scraping 1,000 prompts took all day long. (That's only a little bit of an exaggeration.)
And now there are 5+ kinkmeme prompt pages.
I was thinking, I'd make a spread sheet for the information I want to collect, and then assign anyone interested in helping me a prompt post and page numbers within those prompt posts to fill.
The work load right now looks like this:
Number of pages in each:
Prompt 1 39
Prompt 2 31
Prompt 3 26
Prompt 4 24
Prompt 5 31
That's 151 prompts pages (when I guessed on my tumblr I guessed 150. For a total between 3650 prompts and 3775 prompts on the kinkmeme. Since each page has a maximum 25 prompts in it.)
Anyone anyone willing to do this with me would be a huge help.
But to give some perspective, if I had 30 people working on this, they would each read through and take notes on 5 pages (125 prompts) which would take less than two hours. It could be done in a day
If, when I had this all sorted out, and people got back to me within a week, it would be done in that time.
If fifteen people were willing to work with me for two hours a day once a week for two weeks it would be done in a half a month. Which is about how long it would take me working my ass off almost every single day in that time span.
And so on, and so forth.
Five people, doing five pages a week would take 6 weeks. (And, actually, since I would be one of those people, I'd only need four others willing to help.)
So, again, this is just my outline for how much work is involved. If anyone is interested in helping I would feel comfortable assigning a minimum of one page (25 prompts).
What this means for anyone helping is they get to reread a random part of the kinkmeme that they maybe haven't seen or don't remember well. I remember the last time I did this I discovered tones of knew prompts that I missed the first time I read through the kinkmeme.
And, for reference, here is some of the data I am collecting. I absolutely want: data posted, main pairing, secondary parining(s)*, other mentioned pairings**,
I would be intrested to look at what gets filled: has it been filled? What is the word count of the fill? What pairing(s) from the original prompt does the fill use.
Also: is it a cross over? (if so, with what?) is a character disabled who isn't normally? is it RPF? is it asking for a polly pairing or is it open to one?
*This is like Matt/Foggy preferred by Matt & Foggy fine.
** This is where the prompts talks about say, Karen/Claire but also mentions that Matt/Foggy is a thing in the background.