The last McShep Match entry ever has been posted

[fluffyllama]

Yes, posting has now concluded, so it's time to catch up on your reading and voting!

Voting will be open until 8pm GMT (When is that?) on Thursday 29th August. At that time the polls will be closed. You can continue to comment, but comments left after that time will not count towards the comment contest as your mods need a cut-off point. The

Comments

[mizufae]

I was just thinking that a lot of things created for the Match have been reposted with editing and tweaks by their authors in other places, and there's also additional material like the drabble contests and icons and whatever other mini challenges have occurred. As a maker of fanworks I'm always concerned about my stuff being presented in the way that I would like to call "final" and older versions being downplayed, and as an enjoyer of fanworks I'm always concerned about being able to find everything that's available and also get at the "best" or "final" versions first, instead of reading 10K of something in LJ-comment form only to find it's been beta'd and illustrated and reposted on AO3, or whatever.

SGA is really pretty fantastic about being organized, but it's an older fandom and there are a lot of things that have dilapidated (people deleting/moving their LJs, people reposting to other archives and not leaving forwarding addresses, people wanting their work removed entirely but old copies still floating around...), and it's kind of spread out. And the Match is this great thing that's endured and produced a lot of wonderful work, but it's hard to step back and look at it as a whole. I came to SGA fandom really late and it's been great how active it still is, but I have to rely on a lot of old posts and broken links and google searches to find what I'm looking for, and I never know, when I'm reading something posted for the Match, if I'm enjoying the final version or what.

It would just be nice to have a masterpost with links, organized by year and participant, linking to the creator-okayed final version of whatever it may be, or the mini challenge comment threads, or what have you. That way I could go to that list, and know that what I'm clicking on is what the fanwork maker wants me to see. Ideally it'd have metadata, but I don't think it would have to? It could be on pinboard or a LJ post or an AO3 account or even a tumblr? But it would have to be something where the participants over the years could contact the maintainers of the list so links could be changed/removed as requested.

[busaikko]

There's a page for the Match on Fanlore (http://fanlore.org/wiki/Mcshep_match) and that might be a good place to add-in the master-masterlist? I was thinking GoogleDocs, but that requires a) a Google account (which I don't have) and b) trust that the people editing won't mess it up (accidentally deleting a column and saving, for example; or changing a link from an author's preferred one, out of ignorance). Fanlore is a wiki, so all edits are accountable and retractable. The disadvantage would be that all the links would have to be Wiki-style, but I think if we had a spreadsheet, there's a macro that does that...?

I'd still like to have AO3 collections, because they add a nice level of organization, and because I find a lot of fic by stumbling onto X Collection: Fic A and going, "Whoa! You mean -- there are more fics aobut X? Yay!"

Um -- do you want to take this discussion to email/PM? I'm busaikkobaby atmark yahoo dotcom, but PM @ DW or LJ reaches me fine.