While not everybody who should have a say has said anything - and I know you bastards are at least visiting the forums so there's no excuse - there seems to be a general consensus towards moving the archive offsite. So, with that in mind this is the overall plan:
I've got an AO3 invite sitting in my inbox. I'll create an account (The_Fenspace_Collective) and I can tie that either to my personal email or (and I think this is the better option really) set up a fenspace.collective@gmail or somesuch. This account will be our root - every Fenspace story we put up will be attached to The_Fenspace_Collective. I will share, through email, IRC, PMs or some other non-public fashion, the account password so every active writer can post their work as they see fit. One of AO3's neater features is an unlimited number of pseudonyms, so everybody will also have their preferred author name as a pseudonym on the account.
Step two is to back up the wiki archive - because trust in God but keep your powder dry. That's pretty simple; MediaWiki has a nice XML export function that'll let us back everything up. This way if something happens to the AO3 archive (unlikely but just in case) we still have all the fiction on the wiki as of the backup date.
Step three is scraping the wiki and the forum for completed work. That's copying, pasting into a word processor, checking the formatting and then dumping into AO3's rich-text editor. Tedious but simple enough.
From there it's all maintenance. Make sure the front page links to the wiki and vice versa, edit stories so any confusing material links back to the wiki, get everybody on the account and comfortable with the interface and all the thousand other little things we need to do to make the archive work.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
I've got an AO3 invite sitting in my inbox. I'll create an account (The_Fenspace_Collective) and I can tie that either to my personal email or (and I think this is the better option really) set up a fenspace.collective@gmail or somesuch. This account will be our root - every Fenspace story we put up will be attached to The_Fenspace_Collective. I will share, through email, IRC, PMs or some other non-public fashion, the account password so every active writer can post their work as they see fit. One of AO3's neater features is an unlimited number of pseudonyms, so everybody will also have their preferred author name as a pseudonym on the account.
Step two is to back up the wiki archive - because trust in God but keep your powder dry. That's pretty simple; MediaWiki has a nice XML export function that'll let us back everything up. This way if something happens to the AO3 archive (unlikely but just in case) we still have all the fiction on the wiki as of the backup date.
Step three is scraping the wiki and the forum for completed work. That's copying, pasting into a word processor, checking the formatting and then dumping into AO3's rich-text editor. Tedious but simple enough.
From there it's all maintenance. Make sure the front page links to the wiki and vice versa, edit stories so any confusing material links back to the wiki, get everybody on the account and comfortable with the interface and all the thousand other little things we need to do to make the archive work.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"