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	Preserving Fandom

aerynvala

7-24-2009 11:12 AM

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fandom, organization for transformative works, geocities

aerynvala says:

The Organization for Transformative Works has created some really quality solutions for dealing with the October closing of Geocities. Even if you don't own any content on Geocities, you can help document it.

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Open Doors is teaming up with the <A href="http://archiveofourown.org" tooltip="linkalert-tip">Archive of Our Own</A> and <A href="http://fanlore.org" tooltip="linkalert-tip">Fanlore</A> to preserve as much material as possible.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://transformativeworks.org/projects/geocities-rescue"><P><STRONG>Fanfiction</STRONG>: We're offering <A href="http://archiveofourown.org" tooltip="linkalert-tip">AO3</A> accounts to fanfiction archives (both single author and multiple author archives are welcome) so that you may archive your fiction.  (If you are not the owner or site administrator, you can still document and memorialize the site on <A href="http://fanlore.org">Fanlore</A>.  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