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Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today's post is with Silarona, who volunteers for our Translation Committee.

How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?

I’m a translator and team-coordinator in Team Hungarian and a graphics volunteer for the Translation committee. Our team translates all content you can find in Hungarian on the site: the FAQs, Tutorials, News Posts. (Those three are my favourites. Who needs a normal, regular-length post with nice sentences? It’s either 30 pages of interface talk or announcements with untranslatable fandom terms.) We are also the ones who will help Support, Abuse and Tag Wrangling if needed, so you can contact the OTW or tag stuff in Hungarian and it’ll be answered / wrangled to the right place.

As a team-coordinator I’m responsible for (hopefully) remembering if we as a team have a task or a decision to make—this is usually things like keeping our internal cheatsheet up-to-date, being ready with the texts we use for recruitment and checking translated graphics.

The graphics are edited by a separate team from the committee based on the translations the language teams put together. Sometimes it’s easy, like when I can snatch up the Hungarian graphics, and sometimes I butcher stuff, like when I tried to make my Photoshop handle Bengali and it firmly refused.

What is a typical week like for you as a volunteer?

I usually work in bursts, because I’m a procrastinator. Translators get week-long deadlines (depending on the length and urgency of the task) and we get helpful little reminders the day before our deadline, which is wonderful because then I finally remember that I have a task. This worked much better before I asked for the long documents—with more than 4 years at the OTW, I still can’t translate 16 pages in one sitting. (My comfortable limit is 5, with our two column view.)

This gets faster during Drives and Elections, when there is a lot of time-sensitive content and graphics to do, while I sometimes sit on a longer task for weeks when I’m busy with other stuff.

What made you decide to volunteer?

I saw Hungarian in the list of contact languages for the OTW, and I sent them a (very mistyped) message saying I’d love to help out if they need more people, because I could not get over the fact that my little language was available here. Does the OTW have recruitment periods and proper channels for this? Yes. Did I check anything about this? No. (Don’t do this. Check the recruitment notices!) I was lucky that the Hungarian team was relatively small then, so they allowed me to apply even though I trampled all over the procedure.

What has been your biggest challenge doing work for the OTW?

Maybe setting my limits. I adore volunteering for the OTW — it pulled me out of some darker spots during the years and it’s very important to me. I also have a very chaotic offline schedule, with sometimes basically nothing but free time for months, during which I almost applied to other, more demanding roles so many times. Later I could give thanks to all the deities that I did not apply when my work started up again and I was unable to keep up with even current Translation tasks for months. I still haven’t grown out of this, so I’m just waiting for the day when my good judgement slips.

What fannish things do you like to do?

Besides spending an unhealthy amount of time on AO3 (don’t we all), I’m a fanartist. It’s also my pet peeve that the archive should have more fanart. I know it can be complicated compared to text, but upload your fanart and videos and all kinds of other creations to it! There are tutorials for this. All the pros of AO3 (tags, filtering, collections, easy search and archiving, etc) apply to every kind of fannish work, not just fic [commercial over].

I usually paint traditionally, sometimes on odd things like fans or notebooks (I bind custom-made notebooks too). I’m trying to draw a comic with questionable speed. I also beta-read, mostly for my fandom spouse. I have Moments when I sign up to four different fandom events in a week, then spend the next half a year in Bangs and Secret Santas, just to spend the next half a year remembering I can paint random stuff too.

Now that our volunteer’s said five things about what they do, it’s your turn to ask one more thing! Feel free to ask about their work in the comments. Or if you'd like, you can check out earlier Five Things posts.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

The 9 Forum, a message board for fans of the film "9", is importing its fanworks to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

• A bit of background explanation
• What this means for creators who have work on The 9 Forum
• And what to do if you still have questions

Background explanation

The close-knit microfandom for "9" began creating and compiling fanworks a few months before the film's release in September 2009. There is now over a decade of fanfiction and fanart posted to The 9 Forum as a result of our passion for this fandom. We wanted to take steps to preserve these fanworks now, anticipating that the message board software will not last forever.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Patchlamb, with the agreement of forum moderator Anna Desu, to import The 9 Forum's fanworks into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive's fanworks in their entirety, all fanfiction and fanart currently in The 9 Forum will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from The 9 Forum to the AO3 after December.

What does this mean for creators who have work on The 9 Forum?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors.

Please contact Open Doors with your The 9 Forum pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive
2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your The 9 Forum account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with The 9 Forum mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on

• importing your works to the AO3
• adding your works to the new collection The 9 Forum

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of The 9 Forum on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve The 9 Forum!

- The Open Doors team and Patchlamb

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on 22 December. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

I. OPEN DOORS IMPORTS

In November, Open Doors completed the imports of By Your Command, a Battlestar Galactica archive, and The Pony Fiction Archive, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic archive. It also announced the upcoming imports of Slashknot, a Slipknot (band) LiveJournal community, and The LeBeau Library, an X-Men fanfiction archive. Stay tuned at the beginning of 2023 for a roundup of all the imports Open Doors has completed in the past calendar year!

II. AT THE AO3

Accessibility, Design & Technology posted release notes detailing a whopping 55 issues resolved over four deploys from August through November. Meanwhile, Support worked on refreshing its internal documentation and procedures, while Policy & Abuse (which received over 1,400 tickets in November, a slight increase from October) began transitioning to several new tools.

In October, tag wranglers handled more than 440,000 tags across more than 53,000 fandoms—about 950 tags per wrangler.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

November was a busy month for Communications, who published the 2021 Annual Report and began investigating alternatives to Pinboard to use to bookmark OTW news posts. Communications also released a post reminding users about official vs. unofficial OTW social media accounts, particularly in light of the recent issues with Twitter.

Finance filed the OTW’s 2021 tax return and began wrapping up the last details of the 2021 audit report, which will be issued soon. Both will be uploaded to the OTW website when everything has been finalized!

Systems continued to work on some hardware issues (the servers are extra needy recently, but we still love them regardless), SQL-related changes, and cross-committee work with Fanlore and others.

To provide all OTW volunteers with a low-pressure opportunity to drop any roles they wish to leave before the next calendar year, Volunteers & Recruiting conducted the annual Still Willing To Serve check in for a number of committees and worked with committees like Tag Wrangling and Translation who were conducting their own. Volunteers & Recruiting also continued to work on implementing several new tools for cross-committee usage.

IV. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PEEPS

From 23 October to 25 November, Volunteers & Recruiting received 241 new requests, and completed 268, leaving us with 32 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below).

As of 25 November 2022, the OTW has 945 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New AO3 Documentation Volunteers: Jacks, Michelle Artbear, Polynya, Synnie, 2 other Editors
New Open Doors Volunteers: Alecto Gaia & 2 other Import Assistants
New Tag Wrangler Volunteers: Aceto_Shiobana, Alix, Allíster, Amanda Triplett, Anisha, Art, Bagel, Cabbage, Calico, CCocito, Charls, copacet, Cthulu, Derpinaz, Divia, ElleC, ginkgofan, Glitch, hematophage, hheyhalley, itsoverfeeling, Ity, Itze, Lixia, Luhba, Lyf, LyzS, Maven Morozov, Miru, Nandor, Nataliya, Noelia, Novae, Rook, Sanctuaria, Selly, Sijing, Slumber, Spri, Suji, Synth, Tay'haai, Toriceratops, Vyslanté, Zero, Ziskandra and 1 other
New Translation Volunteers: J_Choi, Kristina Lihan, Sheherezade
New TWC Volunteers: 1 Copyeditor
New Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: Natalia Gruber (Tool Implementation Lead)

Departing Directors: Jess White
Departing Committee Chairs: VSSAKJ (Tag Wrangling), Matty (PAC), Lady Oscar (QA&T Lead)
Departing AD&T Volunteers: 1 Senior Coding Volunteer
Departing AD&T QA&T Volunteers: 1
Departing Communications Volunteers: Jess White (Chair Track and Event Coordinator Volunteer), 1 Graphics Volunteer, 1 Fanhackers Volunteer, 1 Site Moderator
Departing Elections Volunteers: 1 Team Coordinator, 4 Communications Specialists, 1 Public Relations Specialist
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: Kairen (Policy & Admin), 1 Policy & Admin, 2 Graphic Designers
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: eliotjay (Admin Volunteer), 1 Import Assistant
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: Azarias & 1 other
Departing Support Volunteers: Belen & 6 others
Departing Systems Volunteers: 1
Departing Tag Wrangler Volunteers: Giles, Jody, serkestic & 11 others
Departing Translation Volunteers: Dan L, Mallorn, Mohini, Prerna A. Popat, Rhea, Sammi Lee, Shivani Kadam, Sofia, & 6 others
Departing TWC Volunteers: Katherine E. Morrissey (Review Editor), Louisa Stein (Review Editor)
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: 1
Departing Webs Volunteers: 1

For more information about the purview of our committees, please access the committee listing on our website.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

We are pleased to publish the OTW's 2021 Annual Report, available in PDF or html formats. The report provides a letter from our Board of Directors, a summary of our activities during the past financial and calendar year, and our financial statements for 2021. Some highlights from 2021 include Fanlore's one millionth edit, Transformative Works and Cultures' new editor team, and comment freezing deployed on AO3 works and news posts.

You can also access reports from all earlier years at the Reports and Governing Documents page of the OTW website. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

The LeBeau Library of the Gambit Guild forum, an X-Men fanfiction archive focusing on the character Remy LeBeau or "Gambit", is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

• A bit of background explanation
• What this means for creators who have work(s) on the LeBeau Library
• And what to do if you still have questions

Background explanation

The LeBeau Library, as part of The Gambit Guild, was active between 2007 and 2010. While it is still online for now, the archivist Neko was concerned about the stories being lost if she is no longer able to maintain the website.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Neko to import the LeBeau Library into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fiction currently in the LeBeau Library will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from the LeBeau Library to the AO3 no sooner than January. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on the LeBeau Library?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your LeBeau Library or Gambit Guild pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your LeBeau Library or Gambit Guild account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the LeBeau Library mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

• importing your works to the AO3
• adding your works to the new collection LeBeau Library

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of the LeBeau Library or Gambit Guild on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve the LeBeau Library!

- The Open Doors team and Neko

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on 4 December. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today's post is with V Snow, who volunteers on our Support Committee.

How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?

I volunteer for AO3 Support. We are the team users can contact if they are having technical issues with the Archive. We deal with a very wide range of issues, but a lot of it is helping users when they are having a hard time activating accounts, changing passwords, etc. Our work helps users get back to using the site when they have a problem. This fits in with the OTW’s goals because, well, without Support a lot of users wouldn’t be able to access the Archive at all.

What is a typical week like for you as a volunteer?

We have no set schedule or required workload in Support so it varies. Mostly it's keeping an eye on the reports coming in and grabbing ones I can answer. When I have some spare minutes I will write responses and approve others' responses so they can be sent.

One of the things I appreciate about Support is that there is a lot of flexibility in the workload. If I’m feeling especially motivated I can grab a more complicated ticket, which may require internal consultation and multiple back and forths with the user. But if I am not up to a lot of work, I can pick out some easier tickets and/or beta other responses.

What made you decide to volunteer?

I was trying and failing to find work at the time and people kept telling me to volunteer to add to my resume. Nowhere in person worked for my situation or wanted my help. I'd been a fan and user of the Archive for years and the work Support does interested me. So when Support applications opened up, I figured why not!

Of course, I ended up getting a job before I even settled in with Support or had a chance to put this on my resume. But it wasn’t even a question of continuing to volunteer because I realised how much I enjoyed it.

What has been your biggest challenge doing work for the OTW?

Probably the technical aspects. Because Support deals with bug reports we often work with the Accessibility, Design & Technology Committee (AD&T) to discuss reports. My coding knowledge is minimal and a lot of the technical details go over my head, but just through osmosis I have learned a whole bunch about how the site works from a technical perspective.

The other main challenge was the sheer amount of knowledge. Knowledge of how the site works (and the issues people encounter) was one thing, but also learning how the organization works and who to ask for what was also a challenge. The OTW is a huge and complicated place with a long history. It took a bit to figure it all out and start to feel like I belong.

With all these challenges I am glad I took the time to get through them, as the work is all the more rewarding now.

What fannish things do you like to do?

I would say my main fannish activity is beta reading/editing for various fandoms. I do also do some writing myself, but betaing is what I love. I participate in and help run a variety of Big Bangs. This brings me a lot of joy, to get to plan and organize things and watch the fandom come together to create content. Of course, I also read fic and spend inordinate amounts of time discussing headcanons with my friends.

Now that our volunteer’s said five things about what they do, it’s your turn to ask one more thing! Feel free to ask about their work in the comments. Or if you'd like, you can check out earlier Five Things posts.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

I. FANLORE NEWS

Fanlore has had a busy month! It started off in style with its long-awaited MediaWiki upgrade, which was capably overseen by Systems. One of the big additions in the upgrade has been the introduction of a Visual Editor that makes formatting really easy - if you haven't yet, give it a whirl on Fanlore by using the "edit" tab! If you need a guide to which button does what, Fanlore’s Editing Pages Help page has got you covered!

Right after this, Fanlore kicked off its anime & manga themed month, Fanimangalore! It’s been highlighting ships, terminology (lemon, anyone?) and tropes on our Tumblr and Twitter and held an editing chat on Discord. Thanks to everyone who came along!

II. OCTOBER DRIVE

The October Drive coordinated by Development & Membership was a huge success, with 6,147 memberships and a total of US$282,261.69 raised from 7,822 donors. Thank you to everyone who donated this year! Translation translated and posted content for the drive into 30 languages, while Communications also assisted with posting - and celebrated the AO3 reaching 10 million posted fanworks in the same week!

III. AT THE AO3

Support would like to remind users to check their email listed on their AO3 account and update it to an account you have consistent access to. If an OTW committee needs to contact you, we have to contact you at the email on your account. Be especially cautious about using school (.edu), government (.gov), or business accounts: you will frequently lose access to these if you graduate or change jobs, and it will make account recovery extremely difficult!

Open Doors completed the import of the Harry Potter FanFic Archive and announced the import of The Bureau of Time and Space, an archive of Flint the Time Detective fanworks. Meanwhile, Accessibility, Design & Technology has been fielding database requests from various committees and testing a change to the wrangling code.

Policy & Abuse received 1,300 tickets in October, which is a nice, small breather from what its normal numbers are, enabling volunteers to keep chugging away at their backlog. Support’s volunteers are also keeping the ticket queue moving right along. With over 1,500 tickets a month on average, this is no mean feat.

In October, Tag Wrangling handled more than 390,000 tags, more than 840 tags per wrangler.

IV. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

The Board of Directors has said goodbye to outgoing directors this month. Thank you so much for your service, Rebecca, Kirsten, Anna, and Jess!

In October, Legal participated in sessions with the U.S. Copyright Office as part of the Copyright Office’s continued consultation regarding technical protection measures. It also joined allies in filing an amicus brief in the case of Hunley v. Instagram, which concerns linking and embedding on the Internet. Legal’s brief supports the rights of users to link across the internet and embed files and images in web pages and the rights of platforms to allow linking and embedding without facing potential copyright liability.

While Finance was busy finalising the 2021 audit and tax filing, Systems dealt with an issue that required it to move our domain to a new registrar. With Volunteers & Recruiting, Systems also started the process of transitioning to a new project management platform. Finally, Systems continues to work on fixing various hardware issues and working towards upgrades for our SQL servers.

V. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PEEPS

From 23 September to 22 October, Volunteers & Recruiting received 195 new requests, and completed 217, leaving us with 51 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below).

As of 22 October 2022, the OTW has 960 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New Directors: Heather McGuire, Michelle Schroeder, and Natalia Gruber (all Directors), Kari Dayton (President)
New Committee Chairs: bhri (Tag Wrangling)
New Fanlore Volunteers: hheyhalley, Jamie K, Shiou, syrren, Starry (Graphic Designers), and 4 other Graphic Designers, CaitlynW (Social Media & Outreach, 10 other Social Media & Outreach
New Open Doors Volunteers: Keladry (Import Assistant), 1 Import Assistant
New Tag Wrangler Volunteers: Judas & Kitarin (Tag Wranglers)
New Translation Volunteers: Demeter, majorhtom, Jelena and 12 other News Translators, Hookedonthesky (Volunteer Manager)
New TWC Volunteers: Karen Hellekson (Copyeditor, Layout Editor & Proofreader) and 1 other Layout Editor & Proofreader

Departing Directors: Antonius Melisse (President role only)
Departing AO3 Documentation Volunteers: Rebecca Sentance (Editor)
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: Eskici (Policy & Admin Volunteer)
Departing Strategic Planning Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Support Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Tag Wrangler Volunteers: LilianaMelo16, eliadan and 7 others
Departing Translation Volunteers: Amalia Blondet, Anastasia Dumarque, Tanyarin Karuchit (all Translators) and 1 other Translator
Departing TWC Volunteers: Karen Hellekson (Journal Editor role only) and 1 other Journal Editor
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: Natalia Gruber (Volunteer)

For more information about the purview of our committees, please access the committee listing on our website.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

Slashknot, a Slipknot (band) LiveJournal community focussing on slash fanfiction and fanart, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

• A bit of background explanation
• What this means for creators who have work on Slashknot
• And what to do if you still have questions

Background explanation

The Slashknot community is being imported for archiving purposes and to allow more people to have access to the works. The archivist feels that AO3's terms of service are more adapted than LiveJournal's for this type of content.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with zort to import Slashknot into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfic and fanart currently in Slashknot will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Slashknot to the AO3 after November.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on Slashknot?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose.

Please contact Open Doors with your Slashknot pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Slashknot account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Slashknot mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

• importing your works to the AO3
• adding your works to the new collection Slashknot

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Slashknot on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Slashknot!

- The Open Doors team and zort

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on 20 November. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.