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Links to other Archives
Here's a list of archives that people have mentioned as examples and a few that they haven't. One has to log in to look at the upload pages for nearly all of these sites, unfortunately. Many of these are probably fairly redundant (use the same code as each other, have the same layouts etc.), but here are the links for convenience' sake:
Fanfiction.net: search, upload
AdultFanFiction.net: search, upload
MediaMiner.org: search, upload
FicWad: search, upload
Glass Onion: search, upload
.moon: search, upload
Skyehawke: search, posting by invitation only
The Archive At the End of the Universe: search, posting by invitation only
Amor Yaoi (Spanish language yaoi): search, upload
Fandomination.net: I didn't see a search function (aside from category browsing), upload
Fanworks.org: search, upload
SlashFanfiction.com search, upload
Slash Cotillion: search, upload
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Area 52 (Stargate): search, upload
Wraithbait (SGA): search, upload
The Gossamer Project (X-Files): search, no automatic upload
Trekiverse (alt.startrek.creative archive): This came up, but the site itself doesn't have anything interesting in the way of search or upload functions.
BFA (Buffy & Angel): search, upload
Due South archive: search, upload
852 Prospect (Sentinel): search, upload
Cascade Library (Sentinel): search, I'm not sure how uploading works on this site
Henneth Annun (LOTR): search, upload
Vicodin for the Soul (House/Cameron): an example of a links-only "archive"
Twisting the Hellmouth (Buffy crossovers): search, upload
The Smallville Slash Archive: search, upload (a personal favorite for the search features alone)
Rockfic: A RPF archive about band members. Registration costs $2.
Fiction Alley: search, no automatic upload
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ETA: People have mentioned lots of other archives and sites in the comments below. Among them are:
The NCIS Fanfiction Archive, which uses code written by the owners
The Faramir Fiction Archive and DaveUncensored, both of which use TextPattern, a CMS.
Favorite features people have mentioned include:
The ability to preview stories and edit text as you're uploading
Full text search of stories, not just keyword/title/author searches
The ability to mouseover keywords and get definitions
The ability to change the font you view the site in
Review/reply notifications for anyone (authors, commenters etc.)
Automatic word counts
Fanfiction.net: search, upload
AdultFanFiction.net: search, upload
MediaMiner.org: search, upload
FicWad: search, upload
Glass Onion: search, upload
.moon: search, upload
Skyehawke: search, posting by invitation only
The Archive At the End of the Universe: search, posting by invitation only
Amor Yaoi (Spanish language yaoi): search, upload
Fandomination.net: I didn't see a search function (aside from category browsing), upload
Fanworks.org: search, upload
SlashFanfiction.com search, upload
Slash Cotillion: search, upload
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Area 52 (Stargate): search, upload
Wraithbait (SGA): search, upload
The Gossamer Project (X-Files): search, no automatic upload
Trekiverse (alt.startrek.creative archive): This came up, but the site itself doesn't have anything interesting in the way of search or upload functions.
BFA (Buffy & Angel): search, upload
Due South archive: search, upload
852 Prospect (Sentinel): search, upload
Cascade Library (Sentinel): search, I'm not sure how uploading works on this site
Henneth Annun (LOTR): search, upload
Vicodin for the Soul (House/Cameron): an example of a links-only "archive"
Twisting the Hellmouth (Buffy crossovers): search, upload
The Smallville Slash Archive: search, upload (a personal favorite for the search features alone)
Rockfic: A RPF archive about band members. Registration costs $2.
Fiction Alley: search, no automatic upload
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ETA: People have mentioned lots of other archives and sites in the comments below. Among them are:
The NCIS Fanfiction Archive, which uses code written by the owners
The Faramir Fiction Archive and DaveUncensored, both of which use TextPattern, a CMS.
Favorite features people have mentioned include:
The ability to preview stories and edit text as you're uploading
Full text search of stories, not just keyword/title/author searches
The ability to mouseover keywords and get definitions
The ability to change the font you view the site in
Review/reply notifications for anyone (authors, commenters etc.)
Automatic word counts
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http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/
The Sugar Quill (HP)
http://www.sugarquill.net/
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http://www.smallvillefanfic.com/ Level Three has a "search in text" feature where you can actually search for all stories that contain certain words or phrases.
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Heliopolis (Stargate) http://www.sg1-heliopolis.com/
Hermit Library (Blake's 7) search (a mixed links and hosted archive)
Seventh Dimension Highlander Fanfic Archive http://www.seventh-dimension.org/
http://www.lcfanfic.com/ (Lois & Clark)
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Fictionised (eF): search upload
Always Brian & Michael Fanfic Database (eF): search upload
OZ Unit-B Fanfiction Archive (AA): search upload
the Basement - The X-Files Slash Fanfiction Archive (AA): search upload
Notorious (eF): search upload
Across The Pond (eF): search upload
Firefly's Glow Archive (AA): search upload
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Organized by code type?
Would it be helpful/worth the time to organize this list by type of code used? (Not a coder here, and maybe for coders it's completely self-evident.)
Another archive: Silverlake (http://silverlake.imjustsayin.net/).
- hossgal
Re: Organized by code type?
But if we're still going one by one:
TPM: Master and Apprentice (http://www.masterapprentice.org/html/archive.html)
Pro: The Circuit Archive (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/)
XF slash: Down in the Basement (http://basement.ditb.org/)
Re: Organized by code type?
- package used, if standard (source license if applicable)
- technologies used if possible (e.g., php connecting directly to a mysql database, or whatever)
- number of stories currently archived & number of users registered
The numbers will give some clue about whether the software has a prayer of scaling to support millions of stories in the archive.
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Re: not capable of scaling
I also suggest that you not worry about looking at other site's interaction design. Your designer will be familiar enough with it all.
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I love having the ability to edit my archived fic here. I can go in and correct errors on the fly and that's *NICE*!
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(Anonymous) 2007-05-24 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)-ParaĆso Fanfiction (http://www.cafeotaku.org/fanfiction/) (Spanish archive)
-fanfic.es (http://www.fanfic.es/) (Spanish archive)
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You can search by keyword and/or by Category (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal1.jpg), Theme (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal2.jpg), Ages (the ages of the characters involved), Series, Time Taken, Tools, Critique (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal3.jpg), and Filters (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal4.jpg).
So if you wanted to see adult fan art featuring Sirius Black in a dress, your search would look like this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/y-gal5.jpg).
The same interface is used in the submission process to categorize your drawing or story, minus the keyword search box.
It's not a perfect system, but I like that you can mouse over the "themes" to get a definition. So maybe in our archive, if someone moused over "gen", they would see an explanation of whether that meant "no romance" or "no non-canon romance" or "plot-driven".
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http://www.restrictedsection.org
Icarus
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www.lostfic is an active LOST fanfiction archive, though I'm not hot on the quality of fic posted there, from what I've seen.
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Add new story (http://shfanfic.splurd.com/stories.php?action=newstory)
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I'm alice ttlg, I started off in archiving with The Basement (http://basement.ditb.org/), the primary slash fanfiction archive for The X-Files. It's now using the most current version of The Automated Archive cgi scripts created by Naomi Novik. Sadly she is no longer updating it but it is a good robust version which allows reader comments that get emailed to authors (and is pretty well spam-proofed). What it doesn't allow that eFiction does is author editing or deletion, all of that must be done by the archivist, authors can only upload.
I also host and maintain Glass Onion (http://glassonion.populli.org/) which, while multi-fandom, has been for members of the Yahoogroups list only although the list is pretty much dead these days so very little new fic. And I host and maintain Firefly's Glow (http://firefly.populli.org/) for fanfic about the tv show, Firefly and the movie, Serenity.
I took over hosting and maintaining 852 Prospect (http://www.852prospect.org/archive/), the primary adult fanfiction archive for The Sentinel (and the most active of the archives I run). It is however running a very old version of The Automated Archive, I am slowly working on updating it to the newest version but work has interfered with fun stuff. :)
I also host others who maintain fanfic archives, such as Full House Archive (http://www.fhsarchive.com/) (multi-fandom) and EntSTCommunity (http://www.entstcommunity.org/) which are the two largest. I think both of those are using eFiction now.
I also share my server with Area52 (http://www.area52hkh.net/) which crafted their own customized archive and they also have a variety of related archives.
Any questions, please feel free to ask, either here or via email, alice.ttlg [at] populli.org, I'm happy to share whatever info I can.
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Do you have any advice on creating a new archive? A wishlist of features? Horror stories? Suggestions of non-lj forums to pimp this project on?
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It's done manually by the archiving team and they link to the story if it has a website elsewhere, archiving the text only if it's not already on the web somewhere.
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I think we all realize that authors have a difficult time tagging their own stories, but as a community, we have the means to collaboratively tag stories so readers can find what they want across fandoms. The trick is to integrate this into the system, either behind the scenes, or with a reward to the reader that is an incentive for use.
What I'm basically talking about is a customized version of "if you liked this story, then you might like" and "people who liked this story also liked". How it might work is that readers can tag stories in ways that allow them to maintain their own rec list, and the system also could internally maintaing an anti-recs list. Tagging could be organized so readers can get a "red/yellow/green" light indicator of whether the story is up their alley or not.
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I'm terribly, terribly sorry...my kung foo is broken!
There is Gossamer (www.gossamer.org) (just choose one of the mirrors to enter). It's an X-Files archive, but it doesn't discriminate based on rating or pairing. It doesn't hold every fic. in the XF fandom, but it holds the greatest majority of them. It's attached (sort of) to Ephemeral (www.ephemeralfic.org). The interesting thing about these two is that new fic gets posted to Ephemeral either directly or through auto-archive mailing lists and then Gossamer gets a feed from them. All the fic makes it to Goss, but only new fic stays at Ephemeral. It might be a relatively easy way to handle things/traffic on a panfandom archive as well.
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The Buffyverse Music Video Database was the largest, I think; it's down temporarily, but runs on an older version of Automated Archive.
The Smallville archive is similar (and also appears to be down at the moment).
There's also the Witchblade Archive.
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multi-fandom. And there's fic from in kinds genres (kinks) and ratings there.
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http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/index.php
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Also, it covers the whole content AND journal angle...
The F.D.A.S. Archive
http://www.pandemonium.me.uk/feistydanny/
This is an archive of J/D slash stories by writers who see Daniel Jackson as a strong character well able to take care of himself. No wimpiness here! {BG}
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Stories of Arda
http://www.storiesofarda.com/index.asp
(It's a Tolkien Archive, mostly LotR, some Silmarillion, and some The Hobbit)
What I like are ease in posting and editing, the review/reply function with notifications in both directions (both to the review and the replier); the chapterview pages, with easy access to any chapter of multi-chaptered stories, and also to reviews on individual chapters; for the author, the author page also includes such features as automatic word and review counts. In addition, there are Author pages with bios and access to all that author's stories, and if they so choose, their emails. But there are also Reader Pages, where you can go and find out any previously posted reviews, favorite stories and authors, etc.
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Lots of places!
CSI Forensics (for CSI, obviously): http://www.csi-forensics.com/
NCIS Fanfiction Resource (NCIS, multi-lingual, built on the owners own coding): http://ncis.fictionresource.com/
MTAC (more NCIS, pretty small: http://ncisfic.com/
HPFandom (Harry Potter, runs on eFiction 1.1): http://www.hpfandom.net/
And two that are CSI archives but not user updated:
CSI Slash Archive (mainly links to the fics, no real commenitng): http://csi-slash.popullus.net/
CSI Slash (pretty much plain text archive, no commenting etc): http://chance.popullus.net/csislash/index.html
And as mentioned above WWOMB which has posting via yahoo groups as well as user posting.
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DaveUncencored (http://www.daveuncensored.com) runs on what's nearly a clone of the structure of the Faramir Archive, but with a few small changes. It's not yet a running archive, so it only has sample data in it, but it does illustrate the various functions. One in particular you might want to look at is letting users link to a story on their own site. It also tackles the problem of co-authorship that many of the standard-issue fanfiction scripts struggle with.
At these archives, commenting is open to every visitor without a need to register. This has not lead to any problems besides the odd spam comment to buy viagra, but those are automatically filtered out and don't appear on the site. However it is possible to restrict comments to those with an OpenID (http://openid.net/) (including LiveJournal accounts; see http://www.livejournal.com/openid/).
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