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Possible Ao3 Shiritori Pilot

A few of you guys said you'd be interested in experimenting with how it might look to run Shiritori over on Archive of Our Own. I'm opening this space for you guys to talk about if that's a thing you really want to do, since if it is, Ansa and I would need to know not to assign you to a regular shiritori team.

So if you are interested in working on that, please comment here so you guys can meet each other and discuss whether you're ready to do that this round or not. even if only 3-4 of you were interested, you could probably try.

If you are ready, I completely support an Ao3 experiment, but you'll need to pick somebody to mod from amongst yourselves as I am absolutely not up for another side project.

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i would definitely be interested in participating in the ao3 pilote project. the guidelines you noted down are pretty detailed, and as of now, i don't have any additional ideas.

the question is if the ao3 project needs to have a masterlist? after all, the series on ao3 would be the masterlist for the ao3 shiritori. if the whole comm is moving towards leaving LJ completely, then it wouldn't be necessary, right? or do you think people would still stay on LJ, splitting into an LJ and ao3 group and thus making it 2 separate projects?

Okay! I'm generally-speaking used to sketching out rules/guidelines but it's not possible to cover everything on the first attempt—I'm sure things will pop up regardless.

At this point, most everyone is planning on staying on lj and it tentatively seems like dw will just continue to be a fallback back up/archive. That's why the ao3 is a pilot test, especially for this first round. At least at this point though, I think it would be good to keep them as integrated as possible, rather than start ao3 off completely separate, though if the ao3 version picked up more steam as rounds progress then having it be a "sister" endeavour would make more sense. In light of this, my suggestions about some kind of masterlist or posts are ways of keeping the "parent" lj comm equally updated with the ao3 team without being excessive (and again, if later that ao3 "took off" this would potentially be phased out).

Rather than a masterlist or single post, it might just be easiest to have headers posted of the ao3 shiritori fics, in line with the regular lj team posts. I don't think there would be so much that it would be bothersome.

For skipping, I was thinking further and if everyone on the ao3 team has a twitter account, I could set it up so that people could dm the shiritori twitter (or maybe even email it? there are a few options) and the twitter would automatically tweet a "skip" to the next person (or email or whichever option). This would be using ifttt if you're familiar with that, so it's fairly flexible.

the part with the notification for the next person was what i was slightly worried about since we don't know if everyone has twitter. i do have twitter, but i've never heard of automatical tweets. but if there's that option, then it would definitely be a great help. though, everyone could also personally tweet or dm the person after them as well, keeping it the same way we did so far.

I'm going to step in here and just say that I'm going to keep on running on LJ until they pry my journal from my cold dead hands, so it's likely that there will be some action on the comm after this even if the ao3 version goes really well. Since we're in teams anyway, it really doesn't matter, I don't think, if some teams split off to do something new.

I think I've been operating right now under the assumption that, at least for the foreseeable future, even though the ao3 pilot would still be operating mainly on ao3, reshuffles and whatnot would still happen in conjunction with lj (as ao3 has no mechanics for this) and perhaps if necessary with dw later, but yeah, definitely the "headquarters" so to speak for now. If new people wanted to join the ao3 but don't have lj/dw, it's easy enough to comment anon or with other platform sign ins and just give the relevant information.

i think i don't have any other questions for now. we just need to see if there's enough people who actually want to do it on AO3 now, right?

Yup, more or less! It would be ideal to have at least one more if possible.

sorry ansa i just saw your notification! read through everything and i'm happy to join~

Thanks! Sorry for the delay - basically things are good and we'll finalize the mechanics of the pilot team as soon as the new posting order goes up

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