We’re still working to get the rules in place for another great year of Yuletide ( Read more... )

We are looking for input from people who request or offer RPF fandoms in Yuletide, because RPF fandoms aren't clearly defined ( Read more... )

General Fandom Eligibility
In general, fandoms will be approved if their total on AO3 and fanfiction.net, added together, is under 1000 stories. A story must be in English, complete, and over 1000 words long to be considered in that total. The number has been chosen to take into account the fact that there are some duplicates across the two archives ( Read more... )

If you're wanting to sign up for Yuletide (or know someone who is), and you're still on the AO3 invite waiting list, I can provide invites if you email me at yuletide@yuletidetreasure.orgA quick note regarding fandom eligibility: we have moved to using multiple guidelines to determine eligibility, as reported earlier. However, if a fandom exceeds ( Read more... )

FAQ

Please take a look at the shiny new FAQ, compiled by Arduinna. <3

Fandom Eligibility

In addition to the general guidelines about numbers of stories, the mods/tagmods have come up with some other general guidelines. These are intended both to clarify eligibility for participants and simplify determining eligibility for the tagmods:

• 1) Fandom ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Official Opening Salvo of YULETIDE 2012! It's time to ramp up the brainstorming and finalize your choice of three fandoms to nominate.

Now that everything is being run on the AO3, we're able to get back to an earlier schedule, so here are the dates for this year:

YULETIDE 2012 CALENDAR

• Nominations: September 24th - October 3rd
  
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We're hoping to get nominations going next week, and we'll let you know then about deadlines and such! For now,
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I know some of you don't track yuletide, but we've made an admin post there about fandom eligibility.

OKAY OMG

After a whole bunch of coding and unbelievably high-speed work by the awesome AO3 tag wranglers ♥, we have a final list of eligible fandoms and characters as they will appear on the AO3 when signup opens later this weekThis list is VERY LARGE -- it's 1.2 MB of text. Please be warned before you click! You can right-click download to save ( Read more... )

Over the course of Yuletide, various guidelines have been put in place mostly to help the mods keep their sanity (such as it is!) and limit some of the work of running the challenge ( Read more... )