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GeoCities Rescue Project...

aethel: (boots [by cimorene])
[personal profile] aethel
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 07:37 pm
By my estimation, we have two days until GeoCities gets deleted, and [personal profile] meg_r's spreadsheet of fansites to-be-rescued is still pretty long. So ... which should be done first? I see a lot of personal fansites, some of which may not contain more than a few pictures and links. I also see a lot of sites that have been indexed by the Way Back Machine. Are there any major/popular fansites on GeoCities that haven't been documented yet and are not in the Way Back Machine?

ETA: See also IO9's Greatest Science Fiction Sites We'll Miss on GeoCities

ETA Oct. 28: Check out www.reocities.com. So far, it has good coverage of Area51.
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How much to copy from original site?

meg_r: photo; close up of two orange tulips (Default)
[personal profile] meg_r
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 09:41 pm
I'm doing some GeoCities rescues, and I'm not sure how much it's appropriate to copy from the original site. Here's the original site: http://www.geocities.com/betareadg/index.html, and here's the fanlore article: http://fanlore.org/wiki/BetaReadG.

I have basically just copied over the indexes for articles/character essays. I haven't put in citations yet, which I need to do, but should I paraphrase it more? The site is about to disappear of course, so I'd like to give a good idea of what it was like, but I'm not sure how much is too much.
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Focus on ... GeoCities?

meg_r: photo; close up of two orange tulips (Default)
[personal profile] meg_r
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 01:53 pm
So, can we do this Focus thing? And can we make it on GeoCities sites, soon to be lost and gone forever?

We now have a list of over 350 sites!

It includes: archives, recslists, awards, fan clubs, episode guides, newbie intros, general resource pages! Dozens of fandoms! Surely everyone can find something worth fanloring in there?

The list is here (or try hxxp://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtkQF_DFcuILdGswaXRqdkVfekNLdVNXc0o5YzFVSFE&hl=en_GB -change xx to tt; since sometimes it only seems to work when copy & pasted, god, IDEK, okay?)

I've been told it looks intimidating, but it's just a list, I swear. There are some tips for using it on the second sheet (down the bottom, under Tips for using the spreadsheet), but really: add new sites to the bottom; add "Yes" against an entry when you've fanlored it; that's about all there is to it.

For access, just comment with an email address.

Sites which have been fanlored so far are listed here (some are still stubs, obviously). Archives and resource pages are being fanlored under the site name (i.e. Karen's Deepwater or Bend it Like Beckham Archive); single author pages are mostly being added under the author's name, (i.e. Alassenya or Anam).

This is our fannish history, and that's what Fanlore's all about, right?
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GeoCities Rescue Project!

francescacoppa: (Default)
[personal profile] francescacoppa
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 07:37 pm
Just to say that I'm thrilled at [personal profile] 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 [community profile] fanlore challenge as suggested by [personal profile] 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!)
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Geocities Rescue links

arduinna: a tarot-card version of Linus from Peanuts, carrying a lamp as The Hermit (Default)
[personal profile] arduinna
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 01:19 pm
It's starting to get down to the wire on rescuing Geocities pages -- I think the purge has already started, given some pages I suddenly can't find -- and there's a staggering amount that hasn't been done yet.

So I thought maybe it would be good to have a post where people could at least leave links to Geocities pages, maybe with a very short description of what they are, so wiki editors would have a starting place. (Links to screencaps of existing pages would also be awesome, so those could be uploaded to Fanlore later, but that would be icing.)

That way, even if not everything gets done, we have a chance of being able to find these pages on the Wayback Machine later -- once we lose the links, we've lost our chance.

( This is what I'm already starting to see )
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Geocities retirement brainstorming

wickedwords: (fandom fanlore)
[personal profile] wickedwords
Sunday, May 24th, 2009 11:36 am
As most of you know, Geocitites is shutting down. My gut feeling is that there are several articles that are linked to geocities, and we need to document and fix those links. Can everyone help identify where we need to make changes, and add comments to this post about them? Then people who want to look for easy changes to make can go through the list, and either change the links to the wayback machine, or do screencaps, or make the links to alternate sites if possible.

Other thoughts?
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