fancruft

English

Etymology

fan +‎ cruft

Noun

fancruft (uncountable)

  1. (Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.
    • 2012, Jason Mittell, “Wikis and Participatory Fandom”, in Aaron Delwiche; Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, editor, The Participatory Cultures Handbook, page 39:
      This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.
    • 2014, Michael Restivo, "Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way", dissertations submitted to Stony Brook University, page 1:
      Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.
    • 2017, David Letzler, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention, page 5:
      Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.
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