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March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in 4

Hello everyone! It's check-in time again to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) How many works have you identified for future transfers, or have you now moved to AO3?

2) Are you having any problems moving your meta?

3) Did you write new meta based on the last post's prompt? Share it here! Or if you didn't, share a link(s) to a work that's now housed on AO3 that you'd like to get more eyes on.

Please don't hesitate to do self-promotion! Anyone participating in or following this challenge is doing so because meta interests them. So it's very likely someone would like to check out those works.
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[personal profile] elf 2020-03-14 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Posted a handful of meta sources other than my DW - LJ, InsaneJournal, comms at DW.

Half of what I tried to import got an error message of "this work has already been imported." They hadn't. Sent off a note to tech support and imported those manually.

For the Livejournal entries, it tried to import the comments rather than the work itself, which it skipped past, apparently thinking that was the header. (Had to view source code and grab the appropriate parts to import as the main body text.)

AO3 apparently won't show lines on tables, at least not in the standard skin. Dammit.

Bracing for importing a long string of Tumblr posts as chapters.

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[personal profile] elf 2020-03-14 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
AO3 really, REALLY doesn't like Tumblr posts as chapters. (It doesn't like importing Tumblr posts at all, because they are a FUCKING NIGHTMARE MESS because Tumblr doesn't have a way to show one post on a page - so the importer grabs the entire page and you have to manually delete everything after the post in question.)

I suppose it's trying to grab the entire page for every chapter and it chokes on that. Dammit.
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[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2020-03-14 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that sounds like an utter mess alright :(
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[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2020-03-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That's surprising about LJ, and not in a good way, since it was the site most designed for use in importing. Useful for commentfic or RPfic, I guess...
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[personal profile] elf 2020-03-14 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible that whatever skin/formatting was on the page was scrambling things. I think when I used ?format=light, I got the main post; I forgot to do that for some of them.
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[personal profile] elf 2020-03-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
AO3 does not like importing to chapters (it's buggy but usually functional) AND does not like importing from Tumblr (buggy and partially functional; those functions do not include chapter imports) so I wound up copy-pasting 34 chapters worth of content; bleh.

Open post in separate page; get title & date. Put those in the page for "add chapter" on AO3. Go back to Tumblr post; click "view source." Page-Down 7 times to get to the actual post contents. Copy that into the chapter section on AO3. Preview; adjust as needed; post.

Click "add chapter," repeat.

Homestuck Liveblogging from Act 1.

It's showing as a WIP, 33/34 chapters, although it has all 34 chapters.
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