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Aug. 22nd, 2010 02:44 pmReally, show, really????!!!!!?????
Aug. 22nd, 2010
I wrote this for a LJ community, but I guess it won't hurt to post it to my journal as well
1) What is the AO3
The AO3 is a fan owned and fan programmed Fanfiction Archive. The idea behind it was for fandom to own the servers and develop the easy to use features that are important to authors and readers of fanfic, not to leave it to the hands of some corporation interested in ad revenue (like Livejournal or FF.net)
The financial and organisation stuff is handled by the Organisation for Transformative works - read on their site how to become a member/donor and/or how to volunteer
2) How do I get an account on AO3
Since the Archive is still in Beta current sign ups are restricted to 50 users a day
You can enter the invitation queue at the archive
I have also have some invitations that I requested for interested users of this community, so if you PM me your email address, I can send you one of those
3) What can I archive at the AO3
Fanfiction of all kind. All Fandom, ratings and genre are welcome. (Yes, even that RPF MPREG with extra tentacle action)
For the future the hosting of Fanart and Fanvids is planned, for now Fanart can be implemented if hosted externally
4) How to post a fic to the archive? How to import from LJ or FF.net
See Work FAQ here
See Import FAQ here
5) What are Tags? How do they work?
See Tag FAQ here
Some tips from me about tags
- You are only asked to warn for death, rape, underage or violence
if you don't want to warn about any of that you can choose the warning that says that you choose not to warn
- Further stuff can be added as tags
(One persons warning is another's kink, see that RPS MPREG tentacle fic)
A fic with good tagging can get you interrest from people who are not looking to read a single fandom or pairing but something they have a special fondness of (first time stories, stories featuring people of colour, spanking fic etc)
- Use commas to separate the names of two pairings, character names and tags
- If a story was written for a challenge and community the name of those can also go into the tags (common format is Community: communityname, Challenge: challegename)
- If you don't want to use common tag names you can use your own preferred term (MPREG would be common or "Canonical" - as it is called in the AO3 - but you can use "pregnant guy fic" and the Tag Wranglers will make sure it will show up grouped together with other MPREG stuff for people who search for that
I hope this is of help to interrested people
On a side note, I also have invites for Dreamwidth so you can PM me about those too
1) What is the AO3
The AO3 is a fan owned and fan programmed Fanfiction Archive. The idea behind it was for fandom to own the servers and develop the easy to use features that are important to authors and readers of fanfic, not to leave it to the hands of some corporation interested in ad revenue (like Livejournal or FF.net)
The financial and organisation stuff is handled by the Organisation for Transformative works - read on their site how to become a member/donor and/or how to volunteer
2) How do I get an account on AO3
Since the Archive is still in Beta current sign ups are restricted to 50 users a day
You can enter the invitation queue at the archive
I have also have some invitations that I requested for interested users of this community, so if you PM me your email address, I can send you one of those
3) What can I archive at the AO3
Fanfiction of all kind. All Fandom, ratings and genre are welcome. (Yes, even that RPF MPREG with extra tentacle action)
For the future the hosting of Fanart and Fanvids is planned, for now Fanart can be implemented if hosted externally
4) How to post a fic to the archive? How to import from LJ or FF.net
See Work FAQ here
See Import FAQ here
5) What are Tags? How do they work?
See Tag FAQ here
Some tips from me about tags
- You are only asked to warn for death, rape, underage or violence
if you don't want to warn about any of that you can choose the warning that says that you choose not to warn
- Further stuff can be added as tags
(One persons warning is another's kink, see that RPS MPREG tentacle fic)
A fic with good tagging can get you interrest from people who are not looking to read a single fandom or pairing but something they have a special fondness of (first time stories, stories featuring people of colour, spanking fic etc)
- Use commas to separate the names of two pairings, character names and tags
- If a story was written for a challenge and community the name of those can also go into the tags (common format is Community: communityname, Challenge: challegename)
- If you don't want to use common tag names you can use your own preferred term (MPREG would be common or "Canonical" - as it is called in the AO3 - but you can use "pregnant guy fic" and the Tag Wranglers will make sure it will show up grouped together with other MPREG stuff for people who search for that
I hope this is of help to interrested people
On a side note, I also have invites for Dreamwidth so you can PM me about those too