Talk:Archive of Our Own

New relevance
This platform hosts a community which produces a large amount of content. Unusually, the community tags this content with many metadata tags. The original intent of all this metadata tagging is to increase discoverability through library cataloging. An unanticipated side effect is that all this tagging greatly facilitates informatics and data science research.

I am not jumping into this right now but the Wikimedia community has continuous interest in online communities which collaboratively generate content. There are parallels in the management of Wikipedia versus the Ao3 community. I notice the user moderation, the escalation of this to committees, and even the organization of representative elections to the highest level of governance. Mixed in with all this is that metadata which would permit any research to do machine analysis on all these relationships and what is going on where.

I searched around in the academic literature and I found various papers on this collection. Some papers talk about network connections; many do literary analysis on the collection by using that metadata.

If anyone went into the academic literature, that is probably a source for spinning out a subsection on both research applications and maybe another for research conclusions.

The copyright of all these contributions is unclear to me, as is any asserted ownership of the metadata.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  22:23, 10 July 2019 (UTC)This platform hosts a community which produces a large amount of content. Unusually, the community tags this content with many metadata tags. The original intent of all this metadata tagging is to increase discoverability through library cataloging. An unanticipated side effect is that all this tagging greatly facilitates informatics and data science research.

I am not jumping into this right now but the Wikimedia community has continuous interest in online communities which collaboratively generate content. There are parallels in the management of Wikipedia versus the Ao3 community. I notice the user moderation, the escalation of this to committees, and even the organization of representative elections to the highest level of governance. Mixed in with all this is that metadata which would permit any research to do machine analysis on all these relationships and what is going on where.

I searched around in the academic literature and I found various papers on this collection. Some papers talk about network connections; many do literary analysis on the collection by using that metadata.

If anyone went into the academic literature, that is probably a source for spinning out a subsection on both research applications and maybe another for research conclusions.

The copyright of all these contributions is unclear to me, as is any asserted ownership of the metadata. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:23, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Please Semi-protect This Page
Request is on Requests_for_page_protection.

WP:BATTLEGROUND -- KumaTea  来喝茶！ 12:23, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2020
there are some misunderstanding in this things，please be justice Dddorothy (talk) 12:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * It's not clear what edit you want made. You can suggest edits here on this talk page on the form "Please change X to Y" citing reliable sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 12:55, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

SP-EReq 01-MAR-2020
Information to be added or removed: "As of February 29 2020, Archive Of Our Own is unavailable in mainland China." References supporting change: https://en.greatfire.org/archiveofourown.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.52.74.197 (talk) 17:40, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ❌ The article does not currently contain a section where accessibility of the subject platform in differing locales is mentioned. A full listing of country availability might work here, but that's not really the function of the article. The website offered as a reference seems to accomplish that task more thoroughly than Wikipedia could. Regards, Spintendo  18:08, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Regarding AO3 being blocked in China
Hello editors, I think it is relevant to have the information regarding AO3 being blocked by the GFW under the "history and operations" section. It would also help explaining the situation better if the speculation on the cause (mass reports from fans brought attention) can be included, as long as it's worded properly. I'm not an editor myself and I don't know if this is the right place to make a suggestion, so sorry if I'm doing this wrong. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.52.74.197 (talk) 01:50, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

A problem with AO3
I don't know a thing about AO3, but there is an long article about how the fiction that miffed the Chinese government is creating some sort of major problem, apparently because it has so many tags. Some-one who understands what this all is and is about can go to the article to see if the information there is worth using:  https://thegeekiary.com/how-one-fanfic-is-breaking-ao3-and-fandom/91998. Kdammers (talk) 05:31, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Fanfiction needs wider representation in other Wikipedia articles
Polygon has a really interesting article (Sept 23, 2021) about Ao3 and the history of Star Trek fanfiction. Remarkably, the Wikipedia article Cultural influence of Star Trek has extensive material on "fandom" but ignores fanfiction cultures entirely. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

blocked in Russia
One Ukrainian blogger reported site into Roscomnadzor. Now this cite is bloked. Ukrainian blogger glad that she able to remove Russian people from that resource. 2A00:1FA2:2E4:B060:A99A:8110:A0F0:2B8B (talk) 08:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Love
Not everyone u love loves u back 😭😭 2600:8800:2641:7B00:F589:46A:C988:BCAC (talk) 02:06, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Updating numbers
Hell all, just wanted to restate that if you are going to update any of the numbers, like the user count, please make sure to update the Home Page archive link to the latest copy first and then use it to update both the numbers in the infobox and in the first paragraph, thanks. –  Mesi dast   (talk) 08:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Writing
— Assignment last updated by Cja2023 (talk) 14:13, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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