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.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm confused by the "was preserved as part of the GeoCities Rescue Project" that is on some of these pages (like Jonquil's), it implies that the sites still exist somewhere? *Are* they preserved somewhere, or is the fanlore stub (and presumably forthcoming non-stubbiness, like on some of the others) the preservation?

(Also, I think arduinna's post should be hyped on the otw blog, at the very least, it's not getting much love!)

Oh, n00b signing in!

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about everyone's rescue projects. My own project consisted of "get my fansite transferred to my own server, even though I've tried not to host any smut there since I normally keep a partition between my fandom identity and RL identity."

My fansite (http://www.geocities.com/auronlu (http://www.geocities.com/auronlu)) is devoted to all fanwork on an obscure pairing. I archive some of my own fanwork there, but more importantly, I've cataloged and linked to all the fanwork devoted to that ship. Should it go on the Big List? It's not just fanfic, and it's mostly not an archive, but a resource to FIND fanfic and other fanwork devoted to one pairing.

So:

1. I'm not sure what OTW is. Would it be appropriate to host my fansite there?

2. I've never dealt with Wikis except to do spot edits of existing articles. I don't quite know how to start from scratch, or if my humble and obscure contribution to fandom deserves to be noted in Fanwork (Y/N)? I can probably figure it out, but if there's a "getting started" page, FAQ or template I should read first, a little direction would help nudge me into doing it.


3. There's also another fansite that needs rescuing, and the problem is, it's not mine -- the maintainer disappeared years ago, and almost certainly has forgotten it. It's collected on two pages: Auron/Lulu Fanart (http://www.geocities.com/kiminy_2000/fanart.html) and fanfic (http://www.geocities.com/kiminy_2000/fanfic.html).

Ethical question time: I'm gonna save all the content from that site for myself. Normally, I would not DREAM of reposting someone else's work, even with credit, without permission. But those are some of the best-known pieces of fanwork in my fandom. Even those who hate the ship have made reference to a couple of 'em. Do I let it die, or do I rescue the contents, put them on my shrine with proper credit, and include a disclaimer saying it was rescued off the Geocities site, and that if anyone wants their work removed, [link] to email me? I have contact with some of the artists, but not all of them.