Since the site email is down, would an admin be able to email me about the rescue project? Anglachel expressed that she wanted it to continue even if Open Doors worked out, but I'd just like to have a contact person, to give updates, etc. I'm DawnFelagund AT gmail DOT com. :)
The simplest way is probably to post to the discussion thread, or pm me at lj with anything that can go in the News.
Which brings me to: how is the Rescue project going? I know some people had started on it, but I haven't heard anything (and I've been fairly busy updating the line breaks in the oldest stories at HASA that got broken at some point by a change in TinyMCE, so wasn't in a position to offer to help).
It's going really well, actually. I was emailing Ang with updates, which is why I asked for a way to continue to send them, if she still wanted to receive them. At the moment, the majority of stories have been searched to see if they can be found on other archives and saved if we didn't find them. I sent out a follow-up today to the volunteers whose work I still haven't received. Every story should be checked and saved, if needed, by the time the site goes offline. We are also getting ready to start contacting authors; I was going to use the contact form through the site (something else I needed to email her about ...) but am assuming that this won't work any longer with the site email not working?
Yay:) Glad to hear that it's going well - you even have slightly more time than originally planned, since we're currently looking at the Open Doors MoU, and the site freeze won't be until we're done working on that (with two weeks warning from the moment the date is announced).
For all your questions, it's probably best to ask them through the discussion thread - parts of the site mail have been re-rigged, but the discussion thread is the safest bet
Is it still possible to leave answers/comments in the Shutdown discussion on HASA here? And if yes, how does it work? Sorry for asking such a stupid question but I've never been active and have never figured that out.
I wanted to comment on MEssage 55546 as I can help out with this: The other big work pill, which can be done when the stories are imported to A03, is stories that are unclaimed must have a standard statement inserted into the story overview making clear that the work was imported from HASA. It's just copy/paste of a prepared piece of text, but it is work.
There also needs to be an effort to get the word out to authors that their story(ies) have been relocated. I suspect the communications part will be the most time consuming. I am willing to make an author's email list available in an Excel file to the team that takes over to make communication easier, but otherwise I will not distribute contact info."
Help will be welcome for the AO3 work, definitely.
You can still reply in the HASA discussion thread, provided you have an account as you have to be logged in to reply (I think new accounts haven't been disabled yet, but I'd have to check). I can prepare a how-to-post guide for you if needed *g*
If there's any problem with accounts/posting I can always post messages and I'm keeping track of people offering to help on LJ as well, so plenty of options.
I have an account and was logged in - perhaps I have never been activated or something? I never posted anything and probably also never wrote a review; I couldn't it figure out at first and then found the people in other archives. Some help there would be great, though I don't want to cause extra work; if it's easier and useful, you can just use my email address and give it to whomever might have use for it; or leave a note in my stead that I'm happy to help out with the points mentioned above. I'm Winterwitch on HASA as well as on AO3. Thank you!
It may well be that your account deactivated if you've never logged in after setting it up - reactivating isn't a big deal, but I can also mention that you're interested in helping out in the discussion thread.
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Which brings me to: how is the Rescue project going? I know some people had started on it, but I haven't heard anything (and I've been fairly busy updating the line breaks in the oldest stories at HASA that got broken at some point by a change in TinyMCE, so wasn't in a position to offer to help).
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For all your questions, it's probably best to ask them through the discussion thread - parts of the site mail have been re-rigged, but the discussion thread is the safest bet
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I wanted to comment on MEssage 55546 as I can help out with this:
The other big work pill, which can be done when the stories are imported to A03, is stories that are unclaimed must have a standard statement inserted into the story overview making clear that the work was imported from HASA. It's just copy/paste of a prepared piece of text, but it is work.
There also needs to be an effort to get the word out to authors that their story(ies) have been relocated. I suspect the communications part will be the most time consuming. I am willing to make an author's email list available in an Excel file to the team that takes over to make communication easier, but otherwise I will not distribute contact info."
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Help will be welcome for the AO3 work, definitely.
You can still reply in the HASA discussion thread, provided you have an account as you have to be logged in to reply (I think new accounts haven't been disabled yet, but I'd have to check). I can prepare a how-to-post guide for you if needed *g*
If there's any problem with accounts/posting I can always post messages and I'm keeping track of people offering to help on LJ as well, so plenty of options.
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Some help there would be great, though I don't want to cause extra work; if it's easier and useful, you can just use my email address and give it to whomever might have use for it; or leave a note in my stead that I'm happy to help out with the points mentioned above.
I'm Winterwitch on HASA as well as on AO3.
Thank you!
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