AO3 News Latest updates from archiveofourown.org http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts Ebooks Tree and Fanwork Content <p align="center"> <img src="http://media.ao3.org/banners/english/Announcement-%20Diane.jpg" alt="Banner by Diane with the outlines of a man and woman speaking with word bubbles, one of which has the OTW logo and the other which says 'OTW Announcement'" /> </p><p>The OTW began receiving reports on Monday, April 13, that a site called Ebooks Tree was hosting downloadable files of works posted to the Archive of Our Own, and that they were charging for access to these files. Since then our Legal team has been investigating the entities involved and our Accessibility, Design, &amp; Technology Committee has been finding out what had been done with AO3 content and how. </p><p>Upon further investigation, it became clear that Ebooks Tree is not <em>hosting</em> MOBI files of AO3 works, but linking directly to the versions hosted on the AO3 servers, and we do not currently believe they are hosting PDF files, either. The AO3 team has taken action to prevent anyone from downloading works if they were following the links provided by Ebooks Tree. </p><p>In the meantime, we have received many questions from fans through both our news outlets and the AO3 Support form. We would like to compile here some of the responses we have already made, as well as address steps that fans can take. We would like to ask that <strong>if you have further questions you make them here as it will be easier for more people to get the same information.</strong></p><p> <strong>What is AO3 Doing To Prevent Fanworks From Being Taken?</strong> </p><p>As much as we’d like to prevent a recurrence of this kind of issue, we want to take steps that will not end up interfering with fans' use of the Archive of Our Own and content found there. Here are some things we can do and steps fans can take:</p> <ol> <li> The AO3 discourages bots from accessing downloads in our robots.txt rules. While these rules are usually followed by entities such as search engines, bots can also be set to ignore these rules. </li> <li> We are limiting how many files can be downloaded (and how fast) and could tweak these settings further. </li> <li>The only way we can prevent bots from downloading files would be to add a CAPTCHA button to downloads, and this would not meet our <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tos">first goal</a> of maximum inclusivity. CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA interfaces only work in a limited set of circumstances and create a number of problems for users who are not fluent in English or who have visual, auditory, or cognitive disabilities.</li> <li> We could also eliminate downloads entirely, but some users depend on downloads due to limited internet time or because they only have mobile access.</li> <li>Users can opt to keep fanworks locked away from anyone or anything that isn’t a logged-in AO3 user. In order to do so, edit your work and checkmark the “Only show your work to registered users” option, located in the Privacy box. While very dedicated PDF thieves could theoretically circumvent this by creating an account for their bots, this can help.</li> <li>If you are not yet a registered user at AO3, request an invite! Other than bots, everyone is welcome to have their own account at any of our projects. To get an AO3 account, click the ‘Get Invited!’ button on the front page, and you'll be able to add your email address to the automated invite queue. The queue is first come, first served, and invite codes are sent out on a regular basis. The wait time is usually less than 48 hours, but be sure to check your spam folders if it's been more than a few days.</li> </ol><p> <strong>Avoid Possible Phishing Scams</strong> </p><p>It is possible that the purpose behind offering content from Ebooks Tree was to gather financial information from users. To access their files they require you to sign up via a site called http://www.lazygame.net/ and give your credit card info. It is probably a very bad idea for fans to take this step. </p><p> <strong>What Can Fans Do if Their Fanworks Actually Are Hosted Elsewhere?</strong> </p><p>Fans who find their works taken and used elsewhere without their permission may want to consider using this template to tell those sites to take down your content:</p> <ul> <li>Your Name and/or Pseudonym as an e-signature (or the name of the person you’ve authorized to submit this request, with a slash before it and after it): </li> <li>Link(s) to the unauthorized works (link to the pdf, the mobi and the page hosting all of it)</li> <li>Link(s) to an authorized version of your work (whether on AO3, tumblr, LJ or somewhere else)</li> <li>An email address of the submitter (include it again even if it’s in the header)</li> <li>This statement: I have good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.</li> <li>This statement: The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.</li> </ul><p> <strong>Legal Options for Fanworks</strong> </p><p>Here are some questions fans have had about their works, along with replies from our Legal Advocacy team.</p> <ol> <li> <em>“Do I even own any copyright in my fanworks?”</em> Answer: yes, you automatically own copyright in your original expression. You don’t own any rights in the characters, settings, etc. that you’ve based your fanworks on, but you do own rights in what you, yourself, have added to them—which means people can’t copy and sell your fanworks without your permission.</li> <li> <em>“Can the OTW make a copyright claim on behalf of all people whose works have been taken off the AO3?” </em>Answer: No. We don’t own any rights in your work, and that’s how you’d want it! When you post work on the AO3, you give the AO3 the right to display it, but you don’t give the AO3 any ownership rights at all -- which means the OTW doesn’t have the legal ability to, for example, issue a DMCA takedown notice for all of the AO3-hosted works, as some have suggested.</li> </ol><p>We will be updating this post should further information become available so please check back or leave questions here.</p> Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:58:33 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2692 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2692 A look at the Archive servers, then and now <p>The Archive of Our Own started out as a pipe dream: What if we, the fans, actually owned the servers that house our fanworks? What if we got to write our own Terms of Service, and weren't dependent on for-profit companies to host our fannish spaces?</p><p>Defying the odds, the Archive of Our Own settled into <a href="http://samvara.dreamwidth.org/418140.html">its first set of servers in September 2009</a>. A few months later, the initial framework for managing accounts, posting fics, and exchanging comments was considered ready for public testing: The AO3 entered its "<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/7">open beta</a>" phase, allowing anyone to <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests">sign up for an invitation and create an account.</a></p><p align="center"> <img src="http://media.transformativeworks.org/ao3/2015-04-06/old-servers.jpg" width="540" height="358" alt="The OTW's first servers (all two of them)" /> </p><p align="center"> <img src="http://media.transformativeworks.org/ao3/2015-04-06/openbetahomepage-b.png" width="540" height="374" alt="The Archive homepage when the site first went into open beta" /> </p><p>In the last five years and change, we've seen the Archive grow in a way nobody even dreamed of when those servers were put in place. Today, we host over 1.5 million fanworks and count 7 million visitors every month. To accommodate this growth, we've been adding servers and improving our infrastructure along the way.</p><p>Three weeks ago, we reached an exciting new milestone in our history. The servers owned by the <a href="http://transformativeworks.org">OTW</a> moved into their very own rack (as opposed to each sharing a space with other servers across the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre">colocation facility</a>).</p><p align="center"><img src="http://media.transformativeworks.org/ao3/2015-04-06/533.png" width="270" height="360" alt="The outside of the OTW server rack: two rows of cabinets" /> <img src="http://media.transformativeworks.org/ao3/2015-04-06/526.png" width="270" height="360" alt=" All fifteen OTW servers in their rack" /><br /> <img src="http://media.transformativeworks.org/ao3/2015-04-06/528.png" width="540" height="369" alt="A close-up of the server rack and a bundle of wires" /> </p><p>Now that our servers have a rack of their own, our tireless Systems volunteers are hard at work planning new server purchases to replace some of these old machines. All this has only been possible thanks to your generous donations to the OTW, and from the bottom of our excited hearts, we thank you!</p> Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:17:59 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2689 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2689 March 2015 Newsletter, Volume 89 <p align="center"> <img src="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/Newsletter-caitie.jpg" alt="Banner by caitie of a newspaper with the name and logos of the OTW and its projects on the pages." /> </p><h3>I. SERVER MOVE!</h3><p>In the past month, <strong>Systems</strong> performed a large scale server relocation—including the servers for the AO3 and Fanlore—to our own shiny new server rack. The downtime lasted a few hours with site indexing taking an additional day. Systems also worked with tech support at a large university to prevent further DDOS attacks to the Archive, and assisted with the OTW's acquisition of the fandom.org domain name which now mirrors "TransformativeWorks.org."</p><h3>II. AT THE AO3</h3><p><strong>Accessibility, Design and Technology</strong> deployed some minor bug fixes (<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2585">Release 0.9.51: Change Log</a>) early in March, followed by a variety of background changes necessary for future upgrades of Ruby and Rails (<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2639">Release 0.9.53: Change Log</a>). </p><p><strong>Abuse</strong> received roughly 450 tickets in March. They've also inducted eleven new staffers! \o/ The Abuse team is working with Accessibility, Design and Technology on creating several new tools that will help both Abuse and our users. <strong>Support</strong> ended up receiving 738 tickets in February, and are well on their way to a similar count for March with 467 tickets so far.</p><p><strong>Open Doors</strong> has been working with Accessibility, Design and Technology on a new importing process that they will be trying out with an archive next month. They have also been working on other in-progress archives, particularly the manual import for Chains: The Powerfic Archive. Proposed changes to their policy documentation are <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2649">available for user feedback</a> until April 13th. </p><p><strong>Tag Wrangling</strong> worked with Accessibility, Design and Technology to coordinate wrangling around the server migration, assisted Support in responding to user tickets, and responded to several questions on Twitter.</p><p><strong>AO3 Documentation</strong> has recently welcomed five new members to the team, who are already hard at work on drafting and editing FAQs and tutorials.</p><h3>III. WHAT'S COMING</h3><p><strong>Journal</strong>'s guest edited March 15 issue of <cite>Transformative Works and Cultures</cite>, <cite><a href="http://transformativeworks.org/news/transformative-works-and-cultures-releases-issue-no-18">Performance and Performativity</a></cite>, came out right on time, thanks to the stellar work of our production volunteers under the able leadership of staffer Rrain. The also guest edited June 15 issue, <cite>European Fans and European Fan Objects</cite>, is ready to finish up closer to its release date. The Journal team is currently working with authors to complete manuscripts for the September 15 general issue of TWC.</p><p>In March <strong>Legal</strong> responded to a larger than usual number of fan queries, including helping one fan find counsel to fight an overreaching challenge to a fanwork. They also worked with <strong>Communications</strong> on an educational/informational post about Tumblr takedowns.</p><p><strong>Wiki</strong> is currently inducting three new committee members. Together with Accessibility, Design and Technology they have kicked off the annual <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/news/its-time-april-showers">April Showers</a> event. An editing party was held on April 4th to help newcomers to Fanlore with their questions about creating entries.</p><p><strong>Translation</strong> opened recruitment for volunteers, and received 58 applications! They've inducted 20 new translators and counting—current teams Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch, European Portuguese, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Polish and Swedish have grown, and have formed a new team for Kiswahili!</p><h3>IV. GOVERNANCE</h3><p>After the resignation of the <strong>Web Strategy, Design &amp; Development</strong> Committee chair for personal reasons, <strong>Board</strong> has been primarily focused on addressing the issues which are continuing to cause instability in that committee and the OTW website. Eylul has been placed as temporary chair. With the support of the rest of the Board, Eylul has been working hard to address the backlog of tickets and stabilize the committee. </p><p>In the past month, Board has also approved new staffers for a number of committees, and has discussed and approved various proposals, including the purchase of graphics design software by Accessibility, Design and Technology and a migration of CiviCRM to external hosting in anticipation of the next membership drive.</p><p><strong>Development &amp; Membership</strong> has been working hard to get everything ready for the membership drive on May 1-6. Its theme will be games. Development &amp; Membership will be highlighting the OTW's good work through the use of game themes including Go, Sudoku and chess! Their new staffers have all been trained and are being hugely helpful.</p><p><strong>Strategic Planning</strong> successfully finished the second draft of the OTW 2016-2019 strategic goals document! A three-week internal feedback period is scheduled to end April 10th, but they are considering extending it to make sure everyone who wants to has a chance to give input. They will be holding a second chat with volunteers and staff and have also contacted committee chairs and workgroup leads for team-specific feedback. All of this collection of feedback is working towards publishing the final draft of the plan in time for a tentative June 2015 implementation date.</p><h3>V. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PEEPS</h3><p><strong>Volunteers &amp; Recruiting</strong> organized recruiting for Abuse, Strategic Planning, and Translation and is pleased to welcome so many new volunteers! </p><p><strong>New Committee Chairs</strong>: sarken (Accessibility, Design &amp; Technology)<br /><strong>New Committee Staff</strong>: thatwasjustadream (Communications), Katarina Harju (Abuse), Paris Tuggle (Abuse), Astrid Clemons (Abuse), Amalia Blondet (Abuse), Sofia (Abuse), Highlander_II (Wiki), SoyAlex (Wiki), 1 other Wiki staffers, 2 other Communications staffers and 6 other Abuse staffers<br /><strong>New Workgroup Members</strong>: Chrissy Sky (AO3 Documentation), Jocelin Potash (AO3 Documentation), KM Ruiz (AO3 Documentation), Calescent and 2 other AO3 Documentation<br /><strong>New Translator Volunteers</strong>: Ilona van der Vegt, Marta Gil Almirón, Sofia, Roser Agnes, Eva Mignini, Oriontsuki, badhand, Dutchie848 and 8 others</p><p><strong>Departing Committee Chairs</strong>: moonmagicks (Web Strategy, Design &amp; Development)<br /><strong>Departing Committee Staff</strong>: 1 Abuse staffer and 1 Communications staffer<br /><strong>Departing Workgroup Members</strong>: Lucy Pearson (AO3 Documentation) and 1 AO3 Documentation volunteer <br /><strong>Departing Tag Wrangler Volunteers</strong>: Taine and 4 others<br /><strong>Departing Translator Volunteers</strong>: Daniela Kreimerman, bm1893 and 6 others</p><p><em>For more information about the purview of our committees, please see the <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/about/committee-descriptions">committee listing</a> on our website</em>.</p> Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:14:43 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2660 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2660 Release 0.9.54: Change Log <p>This release focuses on improving the tools Open Doors uses to mass import archives.</p> <h3>Credits</h3> <ul> <li> <b>Coders:</b> Ariana, Elz, james_, Sarken</li> <li> <b>Code reviewers:</b> Enigel, james_, Naomi, Sarken, Scott</li> <li> <b>Testers:</b> Alison W., Anika Kabit, Lady Oscar, Michelle D., Runt</li> </ul> <h3>Details</h3> <h4>Importing</h4> <ul> <li>The Archive doesn't allow users to create warning tags, but importing a work labeled "Warning: Wombats" was leading to the creation of a "Wombats" warning tag. "Wombats" will now be added as an additional tag instead.</li> <li>When Open Doors wanted to do mass imports of rescued archives, they either had to wait for a coder to create custom code for the import or import the entire archive by hand. Now they have a semi-automated method to speed up their work. \o/</li> <li>Works imported by Open Doors are usually placed in a collection named after their original home, e.g. the <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/collections/852_prospect_archive">852 Prospect Archive collection</a>. However, this had to be done one work at a time, which was very time consuming for large archives. Open Doors now has the ability to mass import works to a collection.</li> <li>If the creator of a work imported by Open Doors used certain characters in their name, the work would be incorrectly attributed to the Open Doors archivist who imported it. Now it will be correctly attributed to the original creator.</li> </ul> <h4>Misc.</h4> <ul> <li>We recently introduced a feature to mark tags as favorites and list them on your home page, but some users were not sure where to find the favorite tags list. We have expanded the message that appears when you favorite a tag to explain that the favorites are listed on the home page.</li> <li>The editing pane on the New Work form does not automatically save its contents; if you leave the page, disconnect from the internet, or if an error occurs in your browser or in the Archive, you will lose all the contents of the form. We have added a message to make it clearer to all users that they must not compose their work directly in the posting form, and should instead save it elsewhere and copy-paste it in.</li> </ul> <h3>Known Issues</h3><p>See our <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/known_issues">Known Issues</a> page for current issues.</p> Wed, 01 Apr 2015 03:00:13 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2655 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2655 It's Time for April Showers! <p align="center"> <img src="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/AprilShowersBanner-Sidhrat.png" alt="Banner by Sidhrat of the AO3 and Fanlore logos on wooden signs in a field that's being rained on." /> </p><p>In the month of April we hope you'll help us spruce up AO3 and Fanlore by posting forgotten works and dusting off neglected wiki entries.</p><p>We are proud to be able to offer an archive for fanworks at <a href="http://www.archiveofourown.org">Archive of Our Own</a> and we invite you to take the time to post both new works and old works that are languishing in ancient blogs or buried in your harddrive. Add them to AO3 so other fans can enjoy them! You can even backdate them to show their original creation date, and use our pseud system to preserve old fandom aliases. </p><p>If you're posting works, use the tag <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/April%20Showers%202015/works">April Showers 2015</a> so that everyone can find them. </p><p>Or, if there's a fanwork already on the archive that you think more people should see, bookmark it and add it to our <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/collections/April_Showers_Recs_2015">April Showers Recs</a> collection.</p><p>We also recognise that fandom history is far more than just fanworks - <a href="http://fanlore.org">Fanlore</a> records decades of fannish activity, from the days before the internet all the way to current events shaping fandom. If you have old zines, or fond memories of a long-ago convention, write about them on Fanlore. If there's new drama in your fandom, or a new trend in fanart, write about those too! Fanlore is open to everyone, and we encourage everyone to edit it and add their own experiences. Fannish history is <b>our</b> history.</p><p>If you'd like to edit pages, but you aren't sure how, don't panic! There will be an editing party in the <a href="https://fanarchive.campfirenow.com/60af4">Fanlore chatroom</a> on Saturday, April 4th at 16:00 UTC (<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=April+Showers+Editing+Party&amp;iso=20150404T16">when is that in my timezone?)</a>. Come and ask questions, familiarise yourself with Fanlore, or just chat with other editors.</p><p>There will be a second chat towards the end of the month - keep an eye on the Fanlore community on <a href="http://fanlore.dreamwidth.org/">Dreamwidth</a> for the exact date and time.</p><p>To help get you started, we're highlighting a different fandom every day via our twitter accounts; <a href="https://twitter.com/ao3org">ao3org</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/fanlore_news">fanlore_news</a>. Follow us for a daily dose of fandom!</p> Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:21:11 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2652 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2652 Feedback Needed for Open Doors Content Policy <p align="center"> <img src="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/OTW%20Announcement%20Banner%20-%20Diane.jpg" alt="Banner by Diane with the outlines of a man and woman speaking with word bubbles, one of which has the OTW logo and the other which says 'OTW Announcement'" /> </p><p>The OTW's <a href="https://pinboard.in/u:otw_news/t:Content-Policy">Content Policy</a> workgroup is responsible for drafting and updating language for our Terms of Service and other policies involving our projects. </p><p>Recently Content Policy has been working with the policy for our <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/projects/opendoors">Open Doors</a> project. The proposed changes reflect several years of experience with the Open Doors process, and are intended to make our policies simpler and easier for collection owners and Archive administrators to apply. They do not affect individual users. </p><p>Per OTW policy, today begins a 2 week comment period from users. The proposed changes are available for viewing in <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/opendoors-tos-revision_v5.html">HTML</a>, <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/opendoors-tos-revision_v5.pdf">PDF</a> and <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/opendoors-tos-revision_v5.doc%20%20">Word document</a> formats.</p><p>Please leave comments or questions about the changes here. Once feedback has been gathered, Content Policy will use it to make further changes. They'll then seek Board approval for the new policy and make it public as part of the AO3 <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tos#assorted">Terms of Service.</a></p> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:14:43 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2649 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2649 Scheduled Downtime for AO3 and Fanlore <p align="center"> <img src="http://media.ao3.org/banners/english/Announcement-%20Diane.jpg" alt="Banner by Diane with the outlines of a man and woman speaking with word bubbles, one of which has the OTW logo and the other which says 'OTW Announcement'" /> </p><p>AO3 and Fanlore users take note: both sites will be down for scheduled maintenance this <strong>Friday, 20th March.</strong> The maintenance will take place from <strong>17:30 to approximately 20:45 UTC</strong>. <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Scheduled+Downtime&amp;iso=20150320T1730&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=3&amp;am=15l/">What time is that for me?</a> </p><p>Note that maintenance may also take slightly longer than expected, so there is no need to contact us if you cannot access the site at exactly 20:45 UTC.</p><p>For site status updates about AO3 and Fanlore please follow <a href="https://twitter.com/AO3_Status">@AO3_Status</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/fanlore_news">@fanlore_news</a> on Twitter.</p> Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:37:57 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2648 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2648 Volunteer for the OTW &amp; AO3 <p align="center"> <img src="https://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/VolCom%20Recruitment%20-%20Erin%20%281%29.png" alt="Banner by Erin of a close-up of Rosie the Riveter's arm with an OTW logo on it and the words 'OTW Recruitment'" /> </p><p>We would like to thank everyone who responded to our previous call for Abuse, Communications, and Wiki Staff and AO3 Documentation Volunteers. Today, we're excited to announce the opening of applications for:</p><ul> <li>Communications Staff: AD&amp;T Liaison - [closing 23 March 2015 UTC]</li> <li>Strategic Planning Staff - [closing 23 March 2015 UTC]</li> <li>Translation Volunteers - [closing 23 March 2015 UTC]</li> </ul><p>We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at <a href="http://www.transformativeworks.org/volunteer">the volunteering page</a>. If you don't see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.</p><p>All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist volunteers -(at)- transformativeworks -(dot)- org in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/contact/volunteers%20and%20recruiting">contact us</a>.</p><p>If you have questions regarding volunteering for the OTW, check out our <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/volunteering-faq">Volunteering FAQ</a>.</p><p> <strong>Communications Staffer: AD&amp;T Liaison</strong> </p><p>Communications staffers are responsible for the distribution of information internally to OTW personnel and externally to the general public, the media, fans, and other fannish organizations. Communications is also typically the first point of contact for someone interested in or wanting help from OTW.</p><p>The position of liaison to our Accessibility, Design and Technology (AD&amp;T) Committee would be a good fit for someone who has an interest in the Archive of Our Own, would like to provide responses to users contacting us through our news platforms, would be interested in writing informational posts, and has about 5 hours of available time each week. If you would like to help us share news about AO3, this is the position for you!</p><p> <em>Applications are due 23 March 2015 UTC</em> </p><p> <strong>Strategic Planning Staff</strong> </p><p>The Strategic Planning Committee is looking for new staff members! We are looking for organized people interested in strategic planning, writing, and data processing, who are attracted to team environments. We're a professional, collaborative committee of people who believe in supporting each other through our work, and we want someone who is excited about the idea of being part of an environment of support, creativity, and critique. We are willing to train the right person in the OTW's processes, practices, and tools if you're willing to commit your time and energy to us!</p><p> <em>Applications are due 23 March 2015 UTC</em> </p><p> <strong>Translation Volunteers</strong> </p><p>Translators and translation betas help make the OTW and its projects accessible to a wider international audience. We work on translating all sorts of content throughout the OTW and its projects: site pages, news posts, AO3 FAQs, AO3 Support tickets, and any inquiry that reaches a committee or volunteer group in languages they can’t translate themselves. Most of our work consists of translations from English to another language, though we also need to do the reverse on some occasions.</p><p>If you are fluent in one language (or more!) other than English, if you enjoy working collaboratively, if you like having flexible deadlines, if you’re passionate about the OTW and its projects, and want to help it reach more fans all around the world, working with Translation might be for you! We really need volunteers who speak <strong>Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, European Portuguese, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish and Turkish</strong>—but help with other languages would be much appreciated. (Please note that our German team is not accepting new members at this time.)</p><p>Applicants may be asked to translate and correct short text samples as part of the selection process.</p><p> <em>Applications are due 23 March 2015 UTC</em> </p><p> <a href="http://www.transformativeworks.org/volunteer">Apply at the volunteering page!</a> </p><p>Mirrored from an <a href="http://transformativeworks.org/news/volunteer-otw-ao3">original post made at the OTW News Blog</a>.</p> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:24:33 -0400 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2645 http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2645
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publisher: CommonCrawl
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