Let the archiving commence!

[janedavitt]

Okay, I'm all signed up at AO3 and I've been experimenting with the fastest way to upload 847 fics. Importing from my webpage URL works but leaves a lot of header to delete and everything is spaced too far apart/too narrow. Importing from LJ isn't bad but it's slow work finding the fics (I'm doing a fandom at a time). The Sentinel fics I can't import from Artifact, but I can from 852, though some of the fics there are dodgy (those damn *** for italics you have to use...).

Eh. Trial and error, I guess. I'll speed up in time. The worst is that with so many fics I have NO recollection of some of them and have to speed read fast to get an idea of appropriate tags and to make sure there're no warnings I need to be aware of.

I've uploaded all my Action! fics (1) and Chuck fics (1).

Two fandoms done! ::beams::

Comments

[paian]

\o/! So glad you're archiving there.

[janedavitt]

It's taking ages because I keep stopping to browse and read everyone else's fics :-)

I think I need to pace myself (not good at that) and do say ten a day, not go at it full tilt until my head explodes.

[princessofgeeks]

i am mostly done, but i have way fewer fic than you.

you are amazing.

also, hello!

[janedavitt]

I saw we were archiving at the same time! How are you doing it?

[princessofgeeks]

mostly by url from LJ or other archives, but the last push messed up the line breaks something awful. no idea why.

for some i pasted in copy from my hard drive file.

[hermitsoul]

(reposting from the LJ side) Speaking as a AO3 support volunteer: the latest update introduced a few import bugs (paragraph spacing being one), which the coders are looking at now. As soon as a fix is ready they'll push an update through!

We're crossing our fingers and hoping for an easy fix, Support is swamped with reports right now!

[princessofgeeks]

i love the archive and am not worried or upset; I know what Open Beta means, lol.

But i did send it bug reports describing what i saw happening with my stuff.

I am barely able to use the minimum of html, so i am very ignorant about what the problem might be, but i was happy to let them know what i saw and am happily awaiting the fix, whenever it comes.

i think the archive rocks.

[hermitsoul]

But i did send it bug reports describing what i saw happening with my stuff.

It helps us a lot when users let us know when something is wrong, so thank you!

I love the archive as well, I keep stumbling over old stories I'd forgotten about and stories I'd somehow missed altogether!

[janedavitt]

::nods:: I totally get that it's in beta right now. It might also be to do with the way I make my webpage, who knows. Doesn't matter; I can get the fics up there one way or another; just a case of experimenting until I get in a groove and then it will go swimmingly.

[senmut]

It's been slow going for me. I work on it as the mood strikes.

[janedavitt]

Yes, it's way too head 'splodey to do for hours at a time.

[dodificus]

847 stories:O So, you'll be finished some time next year, then?

[janedavitt]

I'm way too..can't think of the right word...insane? to wait that long. A job like this I plunge into and attack ferociously; it's the civil servant in me :-)

[dodificus]

You'll be a very busy girl over the next week or so then. It's actually a good excuse to re-read old favourites when I see an author I love pop up for the first time on the archvie:)

[copracat]

That is seriously the most beautiful icon of Jim ever. I'm just going to sit here and look at it for a while.

(AO3 \0/!!)

[janedavitt]

Thank you! Totally shareable if you want it. In that episode (Dead End on Blank Street) they both looked so INSANELY gorgeous in black and white that I wanted the whole show to be filmed like that, seriously.

And I'm having so much fun browsing the fics!

[copracat]

847

And this just made me think: only 153 to a round thousand!

[janedavitt]

Heheh!

[mab_browne]

I was looking in the TS section and seeing you and PoG uploading, and making happy gestures. :-)

[janedavitt]

It's so nice when you're adding them at the same time as a friend :-)

*\o/*

[elke_tanzer]

*waggles pompoms*

YAY!

Re: *\o/*

[janedavitt]

Thank you! I got a lot done yesterday, but today none at all, sadly, as we've been out all day.

[jdjunkie]

When you have all your SG stories uploaded there, it will be a terrific excuse to re-read them all. Yeah. Like I need an excuse. Pfft.
*cheers you on*

[janedavitt]

I'm working my way up to the fandoms with hundreds of fics :-)