Reminder: GeoCities Rescue Project: Fanfic Writers, Please Be In Touch!

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

This is a reminder that the OTW will give Archive beta accounts to people's whose fic will be thrown off GeoCities when it closes at the end of next month! But you have to come and ask! (Please ask!) If you haven't found other hosting options for your own fic, or if you are an archivist or maintainer of a multi-author site, please email Open Doors with your site name and we'll try to hook you up one way or the other.

Meanwhile, some awesome fans are documenting the existence of fannish sites on GeoCities using Fanlore. If you ever wanted to try your hand at using Fanlore, this is a great time to learn: there's loads of sites that need documenting. And if you know any of the people hosted on or running these sites, please please encourage them to request Archive accounts: we don't want to lose the stories!

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Comments

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I've been working on the Big List (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tk0itjvE_zCKuSWsJ9c1UHQ) for the last week. There's a depressingly small amount of people (two!) who have returned my emails or posted at Fanlore's Dreamwidth community.

I'm curious: have many people gotten into contact with Open Doors about saving their sites? I'd like to think at least some of the people off the Big List have.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I had not heard of this at all.

I maintain a 'ship site that's got links/mini reviews of nearly all the Auron/Lulu fanwork out there (a tiny fandom, yesh). I was going to move it to my own server, but until now I've kept smut away from my own website.

Since this is the first I've heard of all this, I solicit advice:

Would it be better to move the Auron/Lulu Shrine (http://www.geocities.com/auronlu/) to OpenDoors or some other more fan-connected place?

I know nuffink about Fanlore, Big List. Guess I'd better investigate, huh?

[dreamflower]

I took a look at Fanlore, but I didn't see anything about adding to the documentation. I have a friend who kept an amazing LOTR recs list for over four years, as well as running monthly challenges, Marigold's Recommendations. I haven't been able to get in touch with her for quite some time, and mutual friends have said it is due to a lack of computer access and time on Marigold's part. This was a very important fan site during its heyday, and launched a number of well-known LOTR writers. I would hate to see it lost. Do you need her permission to document the site? Time is running out, and as I said, she is hard to get in touch with right now.

Cooperation request

[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

Geocities is closing soon. Fan History (http://www.fanhistory.com/) would love to work with you to increase preservation efforts (http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Fanhistory.com:Geocities_preservation_project). If you would be interested, please get in touch with me at laura@fanhistory.com or our admin team at support@fanhistory.com. We would love to see more information preserved and if we work together, we can accomplish more for the good of fandom.