FAQ: When Will We Find Out about Uploading for Yuletide 2009?

[elynross]

And the answer is...not quite yet. There's still a bit of testing and migrating of tags and other information that has to happen before the AO3 is ready for us

Comments

[taraljc]

If we're uplaoding to AO3, does that mean we can edit the stories ourselves, without needing to ask a mod to re-upload for us? And what will this mean for stories from previous Yuletides we've already uploaded to AOS?

[dizmo]

Yes, from my understanding, it does mean that!

As for stories previously uploaded, also from my understanding (but I'm an AO3 tag wrangler, so I'm pretty sure my understanding is correct in this case) if you uploaded them using the import function past a certain point back in closed beta that they made a code switch to let it happen, then it'll recognize it as a yuletide story and will leave that story alone when it pulls the entire archive over. If you pasted it in to the posting interface, then when the archive move happens, there'll be a duplicate, and you'll be able to remove the extra, I believe.

[taraljc]

I uploaded from my personal site, since I'd gone through and corrected them since they were originally posted to the Yuletide archive.

[blackmagie]

From what I understand, that means there'll be a duplicate. (Believe me, I sympathize. I did the same thing and now I'm like, "Shoot!")

[elynross]

YES. YES, IT DOES. And all previous stories will be moving over, and you'll be able to edit those, as well.

[darthfox]

YES. YES, IT DOES.

Tell us how you feel about that fact, elyn! :-)

(Icon is for you and astolat, natch.)

[elynross]

I AM VERY EXCITED. AND HOW I FEEL IS NOTHING AS COMPARED TO HOW ASTOLAT FEELS. *g*

*admores icon!*

[taraljc]

HURRAH! The lack of editability was always one of the things I've always been sad about, and the ability to fix my own dumbass mistakes MAKES ME GLEE.

[elynross]

Oh, your glee is as NOTHING compared to mine! I can just READ stories, without worrying about accumulated edits!!! \o/

Not to mention no longer having to do all the fandom/character name wrangling, and tech support, and... *g*

[rachelmanija]

I still remember emailing you with a desperate request to add in a paragraph so my heroine would be wearing panties! Which you heroically acceded to!

[elynross]

And I still totally would, if I had to! *g* I admit, there's a small part of me that's having trouble adjusting to the idea that I won't be doing things like that anymore. Control issues, moi? YOU MUST BE JOKING. *kof*

[sophinisba]

I'm really looking forward to editing the story from last year where I consistently wrote "Michael" for a character named "Matthew". :)

[elynross]

Oh, man, I so would have changed that! :( (Here's hoping you didn't ask, and I totally glitched on it....)

[ankaret]

Last year when I was doing a Treat I got a minor character's surname wrong all the way through and in one instance managed to misspell her first name as well, despite having looked up the spelling on the official website. My fail, let me show you it. :)

[haku_kaen]

Oh god, I share your pain.

For every character in the story except one.

To add to the stupidness of the mistake, it was one of two stocking stuffer stories I wrote Christmas Eve morning right after I woke up on the computer in my bedroom which doesn't have internet access (I'd noticed both requests the night before and they'd percolated in my brain while I was sleeping). When I brought them down to my regular computer to upload I went and checked the spelling of an oddly-named character in the fandom for the other story first, but I didn't do it for that one because I thought, "Oh, I know how to spell their names so there's no need!"

And after I finally realized the error about a year later I became very glad that it was the one story I've ever forgotten to put my email address on because I've been too humiliated to ever check and see if anyone's ever noticed my giant mistakes since then, but not embarrassed enough to want to bother the mods about it so long after-the-fact.