The March Meta Matters Challenge

[yourlibrarian]

Dates: March 1 to April 1

Hello Top 5 Participants!

I would like to let everyone know of a new challenge I am running in March. This challenge was actually inspired by my experience with Top 5 and adding recced works to our new AO3 Collection.

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them particularly vulnerable to loss. I found, while searching AO3 for content recced at Top 5, that I was finding a good bit of it. But none of it was meta, even though meta has been recced at every session we've held.

So what if we can make a small dent in getting it saved? The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site.

The MMM Challenge will be a low stress event that provides you reminders and company as you locate and copy over your content. The challenge will also give you an opportunity to promote the meta you're preserving as well as some prompts to write new meta!

Find out more at our introductory post and get some detailed how-to's in our FAQ. The challenge is open to fans at any online location.

I have also attempted to start a feed for the community here on LJ but it seems like there's some sort of error with adding feeds. Would anyone be willing to try adding one? It requires a paid account.