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March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in No. 1
Welcome to year 4 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, yourlibrarian.
These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to another location.
Before we begin, some reminders. Please look over the FAQ as there are some important bits for everyone to follow, namely:
Remember to tag all your posts with the "Nonfiction" tag (in the "Additional Tags" section of the posting form if using AO3 or SquidgeWorld).
Remember to add your meta to the March Meta Matters Challenge community on either AO3 or Squidgeworld (if posting on those sites).
If you've already begun copying over your meta, you can always edit the files to add in the tags and collection assignment.
Also, as stated in the previous post, it's a good idea to glance over the FAQ as there have been changes made this year.
Since this is our first check-in, please comment with one or more of the following:
1) Details about you: This could include canons (if any) you've written meta in, years in fandom, things you tend to write about (if you've noticed themes), or whatever else you'd like to share.
2) Details about your meta: How much of your past work are you going to be looking through? Have you already started reviewing fandom accounts? Have you archived a lot of it already in past challenges?
3) Goals you have: Maybe you want to back up a certain number of posts. Maybe you want to update older meta. Maybe you're looking forward to writing new meta. We all have hopes of what we can accomplish this month. Feel free to share them!
Also, if you have any questions not already covered in our introductory post or in our FAQ, include them here.
Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part. Just sign your messages with your username and we'll all get to know you!
yourlibrarian. These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to another location.
Before we begin, some reminders. Please look over the FAQ as there are some important bits for everyone to follow, namely:
Remember to tag all your posts with the "Nonfiction" tag (in the "Additional Tags" section of the posting form if using AO3 or SquidgeWorld).
Remember to add your meta to the March Meta Matters Challenge community on either AO3 or Squidgeworld (if posting on those sites).
If you've already begun copying over your meta, you can always edit the files to add in the tags and collection assignment.
Also, as stated in the previous post, it's a good idea to glance over the FAQ as there have been changes made this year.
Since this is our first check-in, please comment with one or more of the following:
1) Details about you: This could include canons (if any) you've written meta in, years in fandom, things you tend to write about (if you've noticed themes), or whatever else you'd like to share.
2) Details about your meta: How much of your past work are you going to be looking through? Have you already started reviewing fandom accounts? Have you archived a lot of it already in past challenges?
3) Goals you have: Maybe you want to back up a certain number of posts. Maybe you want to update older meta. Maybe you're looking forward to writing new meta. We all have hopes of what we can accomplish this month. Feel free to share them!
Also, if you have any questions not already covered in our introductory post or in our FAQ, include them here.
Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part. Just sign your messages with your username and we'll all get to know you!
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1) I'm Coyote, and my applicable works are kind of all over the place. This year though I'm thinking of creating a "metafandom" series to categorize some of my existing works and a couple of new ones. This would be a grouping for my metacommentary on general stuff spanning multiple fandoms, like fandom terminology, fan-focused web platforms, and that kind of thing.
2) I've participated in MMMC before and, overall, I don't have much of a backlog. However...
3) This year I aim to copy over my AO3 works to SquidgeWorld, as well as archive some new stuff written in the past year. That's 23 existing AO3 works to bring over, which is a lot more than I've tackled in the past.
Given the discussion about what is or isn't allowed on AO3, I also have some uncertainty about which new pieces to upload there. Right now I figure Sexless Menace and Dogmatic Positivity are probably in the clear, but what about Reading a Moral Panic? On the one hand, I think the fandom relevance is definitely there. On the other hand, the connection might be too implicit for AO3, so I might port that one to SW only.
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I don't have nearly as much to work through this year as in years past. Last year was the big one, as I got through a few years with lots of episode reviews. However I still have at least 4 years, so we'll see if I catch up.
I mentioned this on another post, but one thing I'd suggest re: copying from AO3 to Squidge World is that the AO3 tags will be helpful. Because it's a far smaller site, a number of tags, including fandoms, don't exist there yet. However I found that the canonization is very fast, usually in a day or two. So especially if you have a lot on a particular topic or fandom, you'll likely find if you do one that by the next day the autocomplete will work for the rest of your posts.