Medium Queries

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Today is the last day for nominations! Nominations will be closed at 11:59pm EDT tonight! Remember that all nominations today must be disambiguated with a fandom tag or they will not be accepted.

We've got a few medium queries today! <3

Medium Queries

• Grammar Sketch: I need to know what the nominator means by this. Google is not helping. If it means what I think it might (A paper proposing grammar structures for conlangs or discussing grammar structures based on the existing fictional languages within a canon) then that will be accepted for wordcount. Solved! It was what I thought it was and will be accepted for wordcount. Thank you!
  
• Conlang: Even simple conlangs can take years to make and are well outside the scope of this exchange. If you mean meta about existing conlangs, in universe papers discussing etymology, what I thought Grammar Sketch was if I turn out to be wrong about that, or some sort of dictionary/encyclopedia/analysis, then please nominate a more specific version and I'll count it for wordcount!
• Programming Code: If you mean "something I could put on github" then this is probably outside of a fan exchange. If you mean a story told through code (like from a robot/AI POV), or some sort of In-Universe type coding discussion, then please nominate a more specific version and I'll count it for wordcount! If you meant something else, then please let me know here.
  
• Fan letters: I'm going to change this to "In-Universe Fan Letters" when nominations close. If you meant something else In-Universe, then please edit it! If you meant something real-world, then that's probably outside of what I want to include in the exchange for a few reasons (one of which being the need to set rules for something like that).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nominator for programming code here: hahaha, no, it's definitely not meant to be the functional kind you could put on github! It would definitely be more, a story told through code with a robot/AI POV. (Or possibly character study for that robot/AI, depending on if there's a lot of comments in the code and it's less about the resultant AI and more about the designer's motivations.) It would be in the realm of In-Universe things, so maybe In-Universe Technical Code or Design Specifications? Or something like that. I wasn't sure it'd fit under the umbrella of e.g., "Medium Opt-In: Official Workplace Documentation", but I can see an argument for it being covered by the scope of that tag; if you think so, please reject this nom!

Assuming it's decently well-commented, I think it could go for equivalent wordcount, some of the words would just be functions.

(I was also the nominator for grammar sketch: yes it was what you think it was. A technical discussion more detailed than the usual linguistic academic paper, of variable length depending on how detailed you really want to get.)

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I'm fine with things that would technically fall within the same scope, since the Opt-Ins aren't matching criteria :) "In-Universe Technical Code or Design Specifications" sounds like it would work, that would be broad enough to fit the things you mentioned while still being clear that it's coding based!

(I'm glad that was right! That can go in as-is then)