Guide to Setting Up a New Fan Fest & Fan Fest FAQs

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Contents of This Thread:

1. Setting Up a New Fan Fest
2. FAQs: Links
3. FAQs: Tables


Setting Up a New Fan Fest

Any member can set up a Fan Fest for any skater or team over the age of 13 who doesn’t yet have a Fan Fest.

This is advice for what content to include when setting up a new Fan Fest. It is not all compulsory, just intended as a guide for what you could include.


Opening Paragraph: The first paragraph should contain the skater(s) full name(s) as they are shown on their ISU bio, their date(s) of birth and the country they represent.

You can add who they are coached by, where they train and if they used to represent another country. You can also add the skater/team’s highest achievements (EG: they are the 2020 European Championships bronze medallists, or he is the 2018 Australian national champion, or they have qualified to the free dance at 2 ISU championships.)

For pair/ice dance teams, you can also add who they previously partnered with and their highest achievements there, as well as if they previously skated singles, and their best achievements there.

Biographical Information: include links to the skater/team's ISU bio. (For advice on how to link pages, please see below)

If available, you can also add links to their Wikipedia page(s), Rink Results page, Skating Scores page, Federation biography page (EG: USFS FanZone bio) etc. A full list of potential sites to link is shown in the template below.

Social Media: you can add links to skaters' Instagram, Twitter, Facebook accounts etc. A full list of potential sites to link is shown in the template below.

Personal Bests: In a table, add the skater/team's ISU PBs (found on their ISU bio). These are usually listed in the following format:

(For advice on how to set up a table, please see the next post)
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Programs: List the skater/team's previous programs, by season, where possible to track these down.

Results: Add the skater/team's results from various competitions. This can be done by manually imputing the results, or by copying a results table in from another source.
(For advice on importing or copying tables, please see the next post.)

These are usually listed in the following format:

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Articles and Interviews: if you can find any articles or interviews for the skater/team, you can link them here.

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A Suggested Template

This is designed as a help/guide, it is not a compulsory layout.
If you wish to use it, you can copy the template straight into your new Fan Fest thread and fill in all the correct information for you chosen skater/team.


Opening Paragraph


Biographical Information:
NOTE: this is only a suggestion of which sites could be linked, you can remove any which are not applicable to your chosen skater/team.

ISU Bio:
LINK

Federation Bio:
LINK

All Skaters Bio:
LINK

Ice-Dance Bio:
LINK

Rink Results Bio:
LINK

Skating Scores Bio:
LINK

Tracings Bio:
LINK

Wikipedia:
LINK


Social Media:
NOTE: this is only a suggestion of which sites could be linked, you can remove any which are not applicable to your chosen skater/team.

Ask.fm:
LINK

Facebook:
LINK

Instagram:
LINK

TikTok:
LINK

Twitter:
LINK

vKontakte:
LINK

Website:
LINK

ISU Personal Bests
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Type	Score	Event
Personal Best Total Score
Personal Best Short Program
Personal Best Free Skate

Programs:

2020-2021
SP:
FS:

2019-2020
SP:
FS:

2018-2019
SP:
FS:

2017-2018
SP:
FS:

2016-2017
SP:
FS:

Results
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Event	SP	FS	Total
2020/2021 Season
2021 Example Competition	1 (50.25)	2 (110.50)	2 (160.75)

Articles/Interviews
LINK TO ARTICLE


Many thanks to @dorispulaski, @gsk8, @CaroLiza_fan and @surimi for their suggestions and contributions to the creation of this thread.

 

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Fan Fest Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Links

How To Insert a Link

Basic Links

Copy the link you want to use.

Click where in your post you would like to put the link.

Click on the link icon at the top of the post.


Paste the link into the URL (top) box.


Click ‘insert’.

Your link will appear like this:




Linked Text

Copy the link you want to use.

Highlight the text in the post you would like to attach the link to.



Click on the link icon at the top of the post

Paste the link into the URL (top) box. The text selected will be shown in the ‘Text’ box.



Click ‘insert’.

Your link will appear like this:




How To Edit a Link

Click on the link you want to edit, and a small bar will appear with 3 icons.



The button the left will open the link in a new tab.

The middle button will allow you to edit the link and link text.

The button on the left will delete the link.

 

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Fan Fest Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Tables

How To Set Up a New Table

To start a table from scratch, select the table icon.



In the table that comes up, click on the square you want to get the number of rows and columns you want. If you want a table with 3 columns and 5 rows, count 3 columns over and five rows down and click on that square.


The table will then insert.

NOTE: Not all browsers support all the table editing options, especially on phones and tablets.

The size of the table squares is set by the size of the words in them. You can change size using the TT icon. If you select all the table entries, you can change the size, font etc. of all of them at once.



How To Import a Table From Elsewhere

Find where you would like to import the table from (EG: Rink Results, Wikipedia etc.)

Use your cursor to highlight/select the whole table.

In your post, be sure WYSIWYG* is turned on, this should be the default when starting a new FF/editing a FF.
To double-check, find the [ ] button n the top left-hand side of the post. If it is grey, you are in the correct mode (WYSIWYG is on). if it is blue (with all the other options greyed out), click it once to turn WYSIWYG on.



WYSIWYG on (correct mode for pasting tables):

WYSIWYG off:



Then do a regular paste.

This is an example of what the table will look like. Notice that the links are all copied in.



How To Edit a Table

Click in the cell you would like to edit.

A small bar will appear with 4 icons.


The 3 horizontal lines will give you the options to insert row above, insert row below or delete row.

The 3 vertical lines will give you the options to insert column above, insert column below or delete column.

The garbage bin icon will delete the whole table.

The H icon will make that row the table header.

NOTE: Phones and some tablets will not display the table editing menu.


*WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. Meaning: an editing system in which content to be edited is displayed as the finished product.