Amping Up the Signal: The GeoCities Rescue Project
As there are an alarming number of sites and/or fanworks in danger of disappearing, I am very happy to add my voice in promoting the OTW's latest preservation effort in response to the GeoCities announcement that it will be closing down in October, namely the GeoCities Rescue Project!
If you are the owner of a fanfiction archive or resource, meta or other fannish page on GeoCities and you are looking to house your fiction or other content, the OTW can help! Open Doors is teaming up with the Archive of Our Own and Fanlore to preserve as much material as possible.
Fanfiction: We're offering AO3 beta accounts to fanfiction authors currently hosted on GeoCities --both single author and multiple author archives are welcome--so that you may preserve your fiction. If you are not the author, owner or site administrator, you can still document and memorialize parts of a fanfiction site on Fanlore, but we need an authorized person for an AO3 account. Contact Open Doors for more information!
Resource sites: If you are the owner of a fannish resource site, we recommend a page in Fanlore with a summary of the information and purpose of the site along with screencaps of the entry page and/or other key pages to convey the feeling of the site. We have volunteers who can help you set up a Fanlore page documenting both the content and feel of a GeoCities page. Even non-owners of a resource site can document and memorialize a site on Fanlore. Contact Open Doors for help or for more information!
For either a fic or a resource site, please include the URL of the site you wish to archive/preserve, and an email address. If you are the administrator of a multi-author site, please include email addresses for each hosted author (if possible).
There are some additional thoughts in the comments about what to do if a site's webmaster is known to be MIA.
Interesting and somewhat related fact: fan fiction is listed in the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Main Entry: fan fiction
Function: noun
Date: 1944
: stories involving popular fictional characters that are written by fans and often posted on the Internet -called also fan fic \-ˈfik\
You'll note the date, which is the oldest occurring use researchers found it in an English language publication. It's the second oldest of the highlighted words in the Associated Press release1. I guess it's officially two words now (and maybe it always was, but I have a tendency to jam words together that are either two words or hyphenated, so ah well).
1the oldest being Acai from 1868 - a small dark purple fleshy berrylike fruit of a tall slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) of tropical Central and South America that is often used in beverages
If you are the owner of a fanfiction archive or resource, meta or other fannish page on GeoCities and you are looking to house your fiction or other content, the OTW can help! Open Doors is teaming up with the Archive of Our Own and Fanlore to preserve as much material as possible.
Fanfiction: We're offering AO3 beta accounts to fanfiction authors currently hosted on GeoCities --both single author and multiple author archives are welcome--so that you may preserve your fiction. If you are not the author, owner or site administrator, you can still document and memorialize parts of a fanfiction site on Fanlore, but we need an authorized person for an AO3 account. Contact Open Doors for more information!
Resource sites: If you are the owner of a fannish resource site, we recommend a page in Fanlore with a summary of the information and purpose of the site along with screencaps of the entry page and/or other key pages to convey the feeling of the site. We have volunteers who can help you set up a Fanlore page documenting both the content and feel of a GeoCities page. Even non-owners of a resource site can document and memorialize a site on Fanlore. Contact Open Doors for help or for more information!
For either a fic or a resource site, please include the URL of the site you wish to archive/preserve, and an email address. If you are the administrator of a multi-author site, please include email addresses for each hosted author (if possible).
There are some additional thoughts in the comments about what to do if a site's webmaster is known to be MIA.
Interesting and somewhat related fact: fan fiction is listed in the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Main Entry: fan fiction
Function: noun
Date: 1944
: stories involving popular fictional characters that are written by fans and often posted on the Internet -called also fan fic \-ˈfik\
You'll note the date, which is the oldest occurring use researchers found it in an English language publication. It's the second oldest of the highlighted words in the Associated Press release1. I guess it's officially two words now (and maybe it always was, but I have a tendency to jam words together that are either two words or hyphenated, so ah well).
1the oldest being Acai from 1868 - a small dark purple fleshy berrylike fruit of a tall slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) of tropical Central and South America that is often used in beverages