Archive of Our Own and AD&T

[samvara]

I kind of fail at writing up my most recent couple of AD&T meetings, is being ridiculously busy an excuse?

These are not official communications, this is me keeping a diary and being open about what we do. People are welcome to ignore the fandom:archive and otw tag if it's not interesting to you, or to come chat about stuff if it is :)

I'm still making every other meeting since I can't quite face those Sunday 5am ones.

• This week was a discussion of release 0.8.14, a short release that will contain the User Stats page and email batching - we talked about coordinating the testing and how to make it easier for the Testing team - User Stats should be OK, but hearing astolat can speed up the batching process so we don't have to wait about for them was nice :) We'll also make what small changes we can based on responses to the draft post that went up earlier and are collated on the github wiki.
• 852 Prospect (a Sentinel archive) is the next candidate for importing, we're looking at learning from the Smallville Slash import experience and fining up who handles which bit (Open Doors, Support and AD&T).
• We're looking at Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for the Archive and improving the metadata our pages - and building it into future page design so we do it all the time.
• There's also been some discussion around minor improvements we can make to the user profile (which I'm sad to say many people do not know exists - this is my profile in case you are one of them and want to know where they hide). We're agreed to add fields to the profile so you can link to various other accounts (LJ, DW, FF.net, Tumblr etc.) and once we've figured out how to make it pretty we're thinking a Transformative Work statement that says you allow Remix/Podcast/Translation would be good too.
• Operation Cobra is powering along - it's a 'clean up the google code issues' project and mostly involves looking at old issues, checking if they are still relevant, closing ones that aren't, making decisions on difficult ones and even fixing ones that are fixable!
• My project is starting to develop, it's ultimately aimed at usability improvements for Challenges but right now it's me wading through all the FAQ, the Tutorials the internal docs (text also moved to github wiki which is public, have not moved images though), getting better at understanding the Challenges feature and getting to know the Docs Working Group and introducing myself to people I'd like to collaborate on this with. Feel free to volunteer by the way :) I've also been creating a Collection on the TestArchive and mapping out how it works to get a sense of it.

All in all there's a lot happening and that's just in my little part of the OTW world.

Comments

Re: AO3 profile page

[(Anonymous)]

There is a comment line for icons which is intended for such use, but I think it's currently not getting displayed anywhere. It's on the icon edit page under the alt text field.

Re: AO3 profile page

[elizabeth_rice]

but I think it's currently not getting displayed anywhere
That is the problem. I have two pseuds and I have uploaded one icon per pseud. Now both icon-makers have asked that people give credit if they use their icons, so I need the credit to be visible. Thus right now I'm using my profile page and "My Pseuds" page. :)