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What we need are FAQ suggestions! What do you think needs to be explained, how you think it should be organized, what do you think needs a place holder till we know more, what really important questions need to be answered?
My initial thoughts are that we need an FAQ that explains what we mean by mobile fic and why exactly the formats matter. And we need certain basic questions answered. I've got a few things jotted down but I'm a bit swamped with work today so if we could move ahead with the brains storming that'd be great. Feel free to ask and then answer your own questions or to just ask if you're genuinely curious and are unsure of the answer.
Quickie update: Subdomain is resolving as we speak. So volunteers to make the holding page not ugly is officially open for takers. Debate about archiving platforms will happen as soon as the FAQ conversation gets going. Figure the next few days. Since some of the FAQs cannot be completed till the archive itself is further along.
ETA: The pimping consensus is personal LJ's for now, whole fandoms after some of the FAQs make it up.
My initial thoughts are that we need an FAQ that explains what we mean by mobile fic and why exactly the formats matter. And we need certain basic questions answered. I've got a few things jotted down but I'm a bit swamped with work today so if we could move ahead with the brains storming that'd be great. Feel free to ask and then answer your own questions or to just ask if you're genuinely curious and are unsure of the answer.
Quickie update: Subdomain is resolving as we speak. So volunteers to make the holding page not ugly is officially open for takers. Debate about archiving platforms will happen as soon as the FAQ conversation gets going. Figure the next few days. Since some of the FAQs cannot be completed till the archive itself is further along.
ETA: The pimping consensus is personal LJ's for now, whole fandoms after some of the FAQs make it up.
I'll go first (mostly so I don't forget this!)
Q: What fandoms?
A: Well that's tricky. We'd love to be as multifandom as possible, but we can't say "Yes, yes that!" right now. We need to understand how exactly the resources will get used up in the course of filling up and using the archive. So it's a tough call. It depends on things we can't predict right now.
Q: So, no really, what fandoms?
A: There's a small list of currently active and used to be active fandoms that we'll work from for now, mostly because those are the ones I and others know really well and can predict certain behaviors about. We'll also sticking with fandoms (and authors) that produce long!fic for now because that's the most complicated issue when transporting from LJ to mobile reader/offline. That is not to say we'll be limiting it to longfic so much as that'll be a place to start. Be the authors and therefore FANDOMS we're most likley to address first.
Q: So. Fandoms?
A: Off the top of my head the ones most likely to be opened up first (in no particular order) are:
Active canons: SGA, SG1, SPN, SV, Torchwood.
Non active canons: Star Trek (I'm not really counting the movie), Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch, Mag7 (because someone asked and it's pretty static), Due South.
Now that's not to say these will be the ONLY fandoms or that they'll all open at once (in fact odds are it might take several weeks for me to feel comfortable opening it up to another fandom.) just that these are fandoms I know well enough in terms of authors and archives and fanfiction production to feel comfortable using during the beta testing proccess.
Q: What about HP?
A: I-- want to add it as Eventual and Sooner rather than Later-- but it's SO HUGE. I can't say HOW soon. But it's totally on the list.