GeoCities Rescue Project!

[francescacoppa]

Just to say that I'm thrilled at arduinna's call for folks to list links to (and maybe stub? screencap? fill out? add to?) GeoCities pages. We could really use all the help we can get, here!! I'm wondering if maybe this can be the first fanlore challenge as suggested by ratcreature earlier today--maybe folks can take a look over there and see if there's a page they're invested in documenting/saving?

Examples: some fan pages that have been stubbed or preserved in Fanlore as part of GeoCities Rescue:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Nic
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Alassenya
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Jonquil
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Sweet_Sorcery
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Unovis
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Silver_Chipmunk
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Rabidsamfan

Any help anybody wants to give here is greatly greatly appreciated! (And if you know the owner/moderator of a GeoCities fanfiction site, please tell them to contact me: we can give them a beta account for their fic!)

Comments

[unovis]

Good grief--I have an entry?
How do you correct things? The LJ reference for me is wrong. I'm unovis_lj, not unovis there; LJ wouldn't delete some guy's inactive account and let me have the name.

[francescacoppa]

I can do it for you, but of course you can go in and do it yourself also--its a wiki! (Didn't you get my email? *worried* I sent you an email to say we would stub you in fanlore and screencap the page??)

[unovis]

I just created an account and waded in to try myself; thanks! I'm terrified of making mistakes on all things OTW related. I'm just -- not good at this kind of thing.

I can't find the email. I'll check my spam folder.

ETA: I know I'm cursed, but I can't find this email anywhere, not even sent to my ancient aol address (which might have survived somewhere on that website). Maybe it went via the incorrect unovis LJ addy?

Hmm.

[francescacoppa]

I just checked through my records and I don't have the email because I wasn't the one who corresponded with you about your LJ--Heather Cook did, maybe? (We've talked about that list of HL sites that's out there...)

What I do have in my records, on the GeoCities masterlist, is that a Unovis with a gmail address, with site http://www.geocities.com/unovisunovis/index_stories.html (which I think is yours!), was sent an archive invite--did you get that? *hopes* And then that the site was screencapped in fanlore by Meri of wikicomm, though I can see the confusion because with just the unovis @ gmail and unovis at DW they might have just jumped to conclusions about LJ.

Anyway, let me know if you got the archive invite and I'm really sorry about any confusion! Usually there's a very clear back and forth--we verify the site, send an email, send an archive account, screencap the site!

Re: Hmm.

[unovis]

Might be why I didn't find anything; I was searching for an email from you or one that mentioned the creation of the entry on Fanlore and the screencap, which I didn't receive from anyone. I did get an invitation to AO3 and started archiving stories there from my geocities site. Sorry to cause you trouble.

Re: Hmm.

[francescacoppa]

No, we do sometimes send an email afterwards with the fanlore URL also, particularly if we don't have a lot of information (I mean, as you see, the fanlore site is really a stub! I don't imagine it captures you in all your infinite variety *g*), hoping that folks will add to it. And also so that folks know we've done it, but its not essential and I guess this one slipped through the cracks. I do apologize for the mistake in LJ url though--it was an honest mistake! (We all have too many names now! *g*)

[francescacoppa]

Aaaaand someone's beaten me to it! But you should totally make an account!

Go to create an account (left hand tool bar, bottom) or here:

http://fanlore.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup

If you create an account, you can click on the "edit" link that will appear on any page, and make any changes you want - don't worry about formatting, other people will clean it up if need be!