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morgandawnYou can upload fanvids that have been blocked on Youtube and Vimeo to the Internet Archive. (You can also upload them to Critical Commons). Both are whitelisted for embedding on AO3.
There are a few steps to uploading your fanvids to the Community Video Archive
0. Create a free account on the Internet Archive. Do not lose access to the email account you are using to create a free account - you may need it later.
1. General upload instructions here: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017788831-How-to-upload-files-to-create-a-new-item-page-
You will do this by first clicking on "More Options - Set additional Metadata"
Type in "noindex" (without the quotes) and in the second field type in "true" (again, no quotes)
IF YOU DO WANT YOUR VIDS TO BE LISTED IN THEIR SEARCH ENGINE - DO NOTHING.
3. Save and upload. You video will be processed (it may take a few hours) and then is ready for embedding. It will also be available for downloading.
If you do not set noindex at the time of upload you can ask the Internet Archive to change it for you afterwards but it will take time for them to process your request. Also check to make certain the noindex is still set to true any time you make an edit to the title or description field.
As always there are no guarantees that your vid will stay up and/or will never be indexed, so I would recommend you upload to both the Internet Archive and Critical Commons.
Here is a complete list of the Internet Archive upload options.
And here is their description of the noindex command
noindex
internal use only: Yes
usage notes: While the accepted practice is to have a value of “true” for this tag, the mere presence of the tag in meta.xml will actually cause the same effect regardless of the value used (including empty). In addition to not being included in the public archive.org search engine, the noindex tag will also cause the item to not be listed in the sitemap.
definition: Prevents item from being indexed in public archive.org search engine
We have a Vidding Fanvid Collection on the Internet Archive. To include a vid in the collection, you must email a link to your vid to the Internet Archive from the email account that you used to upload the vid and request it Include a link to the collection. Don't forget to include a link to the fan video collection so that the archive is knows where to put your video
Email: collections-service@archive.org
Link to your vid: xxxxxxxx
Collection Link: https://archive.org/details/vidding-fanvid?tab=about
Drop us an email if you do submit so we can be on the lookout (we have no control of what gets added to the collection).
Obvious note: we have no idea how adding your vid to the collection will impact the search engine visibility.
There are a few steps to uploading your fanvids to the Community Video Archive
0. Create a free account on the Internet Archive. Do not lose access to the email account you are using to create a free account - you may need it later.
1. General upload instructions here: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017788831-How-to-upload-files-to-create-a-new-item-page-
NOTE: MAKE CERTAIN THE COLLECTION SECTION IS SET TO 'COMMUNITY VIDEO' OR THE IA WILL NOT CORRECTLY PROCESS YOUR VID FOR STREAMING.
2. IF YOU DO NOT WANT SEARCH ENGINES TO FIND YOUR FANVID: You must set your vid to 'noindex". This can only be set by you at the time of your upload and must be manually done.
You will do this by first clicking on "More Options - Set additional Metadata"
Type in "noindex" (without the quotes) and in the second field type in "true" (again, no quotes)
IF YOU DO WANT YOUR VIDS TO BE LISTED IN THEIR SEARCH ENGINE - DO NOTHING.
3. Save and upload. You video will be processed (it may take a few hours) and then is ready for embedding. It will also be available for downloading.
If you do not set noindex at the time of upload you can ask the Internet Archive to change it for you afterwards but it will take time for them to process your request. Also check to make certain the noindex is still set to true any time you make an edit to the title or description field.
As always there are no guarantees that your vid will stay up and/or will never be indexed, so I would recommend you upload to both the Internet Archive and Critical Commons.
Here is a complete list of the Internet Archive upload options.
And here is their description of the noindex command
noindex
internal use only: Yes
usage notes: While the accepted practice is to have a value of “true” for this tag, the mere presence of the tag in meta.xml will actually cause the same effect regardless of the value used (including empty). In addition to not being included in the public archive.org search engine, the noindex tag will also cause the item to not be listed in the sitemap.
definition: Prevents item from being indexed in public archive.org search engine
We have a Vidding Fanvid Collection on the Internet Archive. To include a vid in the collection, you must email a link to your vid to the Internet Archive from the email account that you used to upload the vid and request it Include a link to the collection. Don't forget to include a link to the fan video collection so that the archive is knows where to put your video
Email: collections-service@archive.org
Link to your vid: xxxxxxxx
Collection Link: https://archive.org/details/vidding-fanvid?tab=about
Drop us an email if you do submit so we can be on the lookout (we have no control of what gets added to the collection).
Obvious note: we have no idea how adding your vid to the collection will impact the search engine visibility.