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Anniversary Trivia Post #2
The Organization for Transformative Works is celebrating its fifth anniversary! From September 4 to September 6, we're holding trivia and participation contests across our various news outlets, in order to celebrate and publicize the OTW's projects and organization history.
In order to enter, comment in reply to this post with your answers to the five trivia questions below (your comment will be screened). If your answers to all five trivia questions are correct, you will win an invite to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). See our first announcement post for more details on the contest rules and if you have any questions, please post them there.
1. Our Translation team makes the OTW website available in how many languages?
2. How many works are found under the "podfic" tag on AO3?
3. What is A Torrent Of Our Own? (Feel free to use the description found on transformativeworks.org.)
4. What two fandoms were the first (earliest) for which fanworks have been preserved through Open Doors's Fan Culture Preservation project?
5. How many active news outlets does the OTW maintain?
In order to enter, comment in reply to this post with your answers to the five trivia questions below (your comment will be screened). If your answers to all five trivia questions are correct, you will win an invite to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). See our first announcement post for more details on the contest rules and if you have any questions, please post them there.
1. Our Translation team makes the OTW website available in how many languages?
2. How many works are found under the "podfic" tag on AO3?
3. What is A Torrent Of Our Own? (Feel free to use the description found on transformativeworks.org.)
4. What two fandoms were the first (earliest) for which fanworks have been preserved through Open Doors's Fan Culture Preservation project?
5. How many active news outlets does the OTW maintain?
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2. How many works are found under the "podfic" tag on AO3? 2080 (though searching for podfic in search field yields 3300)
3. What is A Torrent Of Our Own? (Feel free to use the description found on transformativeworks.org.) "The Torrent of Our Own is a private tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including: vids, fic trailers, fan art, zine pdfs, AMVs, political remix, machinima, and other transformative digital fanworks. See the Fan Video Roadmap for more information."
4. What two fandoms were the first (earliest) for which fanworks have been preserved through Open Doors's Fan Culture Preservation project? Star Trek and Star Wars
5. How many active news outlets does the OTW maintain? 6 manually posted outlets; 3 non interactive feeds, 9 defunct accounts, and a Linked page. (and AO3 qnd fanlore outlets)
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Camden
Communications Committee
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-05 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)2) 2061 tagged as podfic
3) The Torrent of Our Own is a private tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including: vids, fic trailers, fan art, zine pdfs, AMVs, political remix, machinima, and other transformative digital fanworks.
4) Star Wars and Star Trek fanzines, from the Mariellen (Ming) Wathne Fanzine Archive Collection. April 1st 2009
5) 6 news outlets (7 if you count the LinkedIn, though that's more of employee than News)
~Danie (daniexj@gmail.com)
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You answered all the questions correctly -- congratulations and thank you for participating! We will be in touch via email.
Camden
Communications Committee
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2. 2061
3. The Torrent of Our Own (TO3) is a bittorrent tracker open to registered users to post torrents for fair-use transformative fanworks, including: fan vids, fic trailers, political remix, AMVs, machinima, and other forms of transformative digital remix.
4. Star Wars and Star Trek
5. 6 for OTW itself
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You answered all the questions correctly -- congratulations and thank you for participating!
What email address would you like us to send the invite to? (If you'd like to keep the address private, feel free to screen your comment or email us via our contact form (http://transformativeworks.org/contact/communications).)
Camden
Communications Committee
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2. 2077
3. "The Torrent of Our Own is a private tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including: vids, fic trailers, fan art, zine pdfs, AMVs, political remix, machinima, and other transformative digital fanworks."
4. Star Trek & Stargate Atlantis
5. livejournal, dreamwidth, twitter, tumblr, the website, facebook
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You answered all the questions correctly -- congratulations and thank you for participating! (Although our original answer to #4 was Star Trek and Star Wars, we've decided that Stargate: Atlantis counts, since there are zines from that fandom in the collection.)
What email address would you like us to send the invite to? (If you'd like to keep the address private, feel free to screen your comment or email us via our contact form (http://transformativeworks.org/contact/communications).)
Camden
Communications Committee
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2. Counting synned tags, 2081 as of this comment.
3. "The Torrent of Our Own is a private tracker for fair-use transformative fanworks, including: vids, fic trailers, fan art, zine pdfs, AMVs, political remix, machinima, and other transformative digital fanworks."
4. The earliest listed on the Open Doors collections page are Star Wars and Star Trek zines through the Mariellen (Ming) Wathne Fanzine Archive Collection.
5. There are 6 active posting outlets: OTW website, Twitter, Livejournal, Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and Pinboard. AO3 and Fanlore have their own outlets as well.
Thank you very much! :D If these are correct, my email is lanonymouse@hotmail.com .
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You answered all the questions correctly -- congratulations and thank you for participating!
Just to double check -- that is the email address you want us to send the invite to, yes? (We wouldn't want to send the invite to the wrong email!)
Camden
Communications Committee