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Welcome to the conlang magazine collab. This is the activity for you to showcase your conlang amongst others in this conlang-only magazine. It will be produced in the style of TIME/National Geographic/Vogue. If you are interested, just sign-up as a participant.

Participant list: 5 (Phase 2)
* Dormouse559
* k1234567890y
* Parlox
* Reyzadren
* Vlürch
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* Evynova




[Conlang Magazine Guideline] (can be editted according to participants' suggestions)
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Phase
This collab shall be run in 2 phases. Participants post at the beginning of each phase to declare their interest. Phase 1 is an individual phase, where you will eventually decide on your entire submission and its length. Phase 2 deals with integration of parts, such as the front cover, table of contents, editor page, arrangement of articles etc.

If you are no longer interested in the collab, then you just don't declare yourself during the beginning of Phase 2. No commitments, guaranteed.

Language
Only languages without an established magazine are allowed, ie conlangs.
Other languages might be used only in the table of contents, editor page and/or the front cover.

Topic
Any topic is allowed, such as (con)world news, business, science, technology, nature, travel, culture, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, stories etc. You can choose to write in the context of irl, altworlds or conworlds.

Conscript

* If your conlang has a conscript, then it should be written in that conscript, unless you don't have the facility to do so.
* If your conlang has optional or multiple conscripts, you can choose any 1 of them.

Length
Let's aim for 25 pages in this magazine, including the covers and ads.
Participants can submit as many articles as they want, with no length limits.

If there are 10 participants, that means everyone only submits 3 pages to reach that goal, cool.

Ads
Graphical ads can be embedded into your article or as a complete page by itself, written in a conlang. Ads form 25~50% of all content in most magazines anyway.

Format
There is no standard to ensure consistency. You are free to set your own physical/pixel dimensions, font size, colour scheme and/or other page formatting for now.

If you want, you can band together with other members for a unified look, or you can even declare your specifications for others to see.

Page numbering
You can have page numbers in a natlang or conlang or none at all. Pages will only be officialised during Phase 2, but you can play around with the settings first.

Rejection
All articles are accepted by default. If any 1 participant is dissatisfied with any 1 other article/ad, then we shall go to a majority vote for rejection.

Magazine name
The participants shall collectively decide on the magazine name, which will appear on the front cover, of course.

Authorship
You can provide your real name, username or the con-writer's name. Moreover, you can "separate" the name of the contributor vs name of article "writer", if you want.

Copyright/left
Each article will have its own creative license, just state whichever you want, ranging from standard copyright to creative commons.

Translation
Translations into a natlang is not required, both during and after the magazine production. Bilingual side-by-side translations are allowed, if you are using this format for your article.

Accessibility
This collab is not just for CBB forum members, so anyone from other conlang communities can also contribute, it is encouraged. However, I don't have conlang memberships elsewhere, so the submission has to somehow make its way here.

Leadership
There is no de-facto main leader for this collab atm. If anyone would want all the duties and responbilities (think of the honour!), feel free to take it from me lol

Success
If this collab fails, you can at least still keep your article for other future uses.

Hints
Tip: Add pictures to your article. Magazines are filled with pictures and colours, and they help add length to your article too.

Phase 1
At the end of phase 1 (somewhere in April), you should have already finished:
* Your article, and ads if any, without page numbers.
* A short paragraph or 2 about the contributor (irl/altworld/conworld) with an avatar, as well as a description/blurb about the conlang (you can re-use the one from the relay). This will be displayed on the editor page.

This thread is used for both discussion and official matters of this collab.
Let's get cooking~
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I'll participate.
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I will also join in.
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I'm interested, count me as a participant. I just have one question. Well, two actually: what are the deadlines, and what happens with late submissions? Not saying I'm planning on being late, but I know how bad I am with deadlines lol.
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For this phase 1, the "deadline" is somewhere in April, but one doesn't actually submit anything. One just declares that they finished their article without the final edits, or state whatever the progress is if they are still interested in being a participant, during the Phase 2 re-signup.

The real "submission" happens at the end of phase 2, but I don't plan that far ahead.
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Still fidgeting with the formatting and content with my article, but I seem to be using these figures as they come with the magazine page template that I am using:
780 x 1000 pixels for a full-paged picture; 7.99" x 10.24" page properties (or whatever is its equivalent).

Note: Everyone can use their own numerical specifications that best fit their aesthetic.
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Could you share that magazine template, if possible? It sounds useful.
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I actually meant that those numbers were obtained from many other magazine template examples across web searches, while the design that I currently have itself is actually made from scratch via OpenOffice Writer.

So far, I am using double columns for the text, and having page numbers with coloured tagline words at the bottom.
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Let's move on to phase 2 as it's already April. This is what I have for my article. (7 pages, including 2 ads)

We can start arranging the magazine articles when everyone is ready.
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I will probably have my article done by the end of the weekend. Had to wrestle Word into submission.
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can I take part in? OuO
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.
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Sure, just post/link your article/ad.

We shall collect everyone's contribution afterwards.
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so we are making a magazine written in conlangs?
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.
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Uh... I'd be interested in contributing something, but I didn't see this thread until now. Since I'm fast at doing stuff if I get motivated, I could literally do everything for my submission in a day or two at most if I got enough interest and was still allowed to participate this late. What kind of stuff should even be submitted? Like, a few "pages" that are 780x1000 images with text in a conlang and some pics? But what should the text be about? Could it be some kind of short story or promotional article for a fake album or fake film or something? Or an althistory news article thing? And the pics? I assume original content or public domain pics would be required since violating copyrights isn't exactly legal, even if it's pretty much the norm online?
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Vlürch wrote: 10 Apr 2018 23:53And the pics? I assume original content or public domain pics would be required since violating copyrights isn't exactly legal, even if it's pretty much the norm online?
I've been getting my pictures from sites that distribute public domain or Creative Commons photos. Where attribution is required, I write one in my conlang.* Unsplash has a wide range of beautiful hi-res photography, all free to use with optional attribution. Wikimedia Commons also has a lot of photographs and images; these are usually licensed under Creative Commons.

* e.g. Foto lê Varaine sou’ llê lisancha CC BY-SA 4.0 [license URL] - "Photo by Varaine under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence"
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Dormouse559 wrote: 11 Apr 2018 00:37I've been getting my pictures from sites that distribute public domain or Creative Commons photos. Where attribution is required, I write one in my conlang.* Unsplash has a wide range of beautiful hi-res photography, all free to use with optional attribution. Wikimedia Commons also has a lot of photographs and images; these are usually licensed under Creative Commons.
Yeah, Wikimedia Commons is great especially for old public domain paintings and photos, as well as maps; I've gotten a lot for album art and stuff from there.

I was thinking of doing a "report" in Phenglộl on fictional conflicts around the world before realising that I'm probably not motivated enough, and Phenglộl being an incredible fail of a conlang even though it's the one I've worked the most on, lol; it's too counterintuitive to write even short paragraphs in without them starting to get really repetitive, and also impossible to keep from looking absolutely hideous with all the diacritics... maybe I could drop them and reverse the rules on the marking of interrogatives and affirmatives and whatnot and call them "journalistic rules" or something, but that'd only make it about as big a mess as English... [xP]

I guess I could do it in a different conlang, getting one of the hundreds of scratches to a much better state in the process.
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k1234567890y wrote: 10 Apr 2018 23:28 so we are making a magazine written in conlangs?
Yes, except maybe the front page, table of contents and editor/introduction page with natlang(s).
Vlürch wrote: 10 Apr 2018 23:53 Uh... I'd be interested in contributing something, but I didn't see this thread until now. Since I'm fast at doing stuff if I get motivated, I could literally do everything for my submission in a day or two at most if I got enough interest and was still allowed to participate this late. What kind of stuff should even be submitted? Like, a few "pages" that are 780x1000 images with text in a conlang and some pics? But what should the text be about? Could it be some kind of short story or promotional article for a fake album or fake film or something? Or an althistory news article thing? And the pics? I assume original content or public domain pics would be required since violating copyrights isn't exactly legal, even if it's pretty much the norm online?

I guess I could do it in a different conlang, getting one of the hundreds of scratches to a much better state in the process.
So, do you want to participate? I added your name to the list anyway :P

Short story? Yes. Fake album/film review? Yes. Althistory news? Yes. I used Creative Commons for images in my article.
Also, you can use any format, not just 780x1000 (that's just the size that my image happens to be).
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I ask only that the AltHistory news be clearly identified as alt.
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Alright, I've got my article pretty much finalized. Here's the article. It's four pages long with photos, no ads. I plan to keep editing it for typos and writing style, but the page count and formatting are set.

So yeah, I decided to write about a current event in the country of Silvia based on an aspect of my alt-history, where a farmer is reintroducing saffron. During the real-life Middle Ages, saffron was widely grown in France's Maurienne Valley, which became well-known for that crop and neighbors hypothetical Silvia. In my timeline, Silvia becomes known for saffron instead. The spice's popularity fell off over the 19th century, but the farmer featured in my article started growing it again several years ago. There are also two recipes for traditional dishes colored with saffron.
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eldin raigmore wrote: 12 Apr 2018 00:16 I ask only that the AltHistory news be clearly identified as alt.
I suppose the articles could also be arranged based on levels of reality: irl comes first, then althistory, and conworld stuff towards the end? However, the real situation is: Nobody would know what they are actually saying, because it's written in conlangs lol
Dormouse559 wrote: 12 Apr 2018 19:47 Alright, I've got my article pretty much finalized. Here's the article. It's four pages long with photos, no ads. I plan to keep editing it for typos and writing style, but the page count and formatting are set.
Beautifully designed [<3]

Now we'll just wait for the others to confirm their parts.
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