From 2020: Stats About The Yahoo Groups Rescue Project

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yahoogroups posted: Yahoo Groups GMD stats

Between the ArchiveTeam volunteers and the Yahoo Groups Fandom Rescue Project, we saved 960,233 unique groups through Yahoo's GetMyData method (not counting what was saved through the Python script and PGOffline). Wow! And hopefully some more is yet to come as there are a few people who have promised to send us their GMDs but haven't yet. We will always accept it, even if it's just as a "please don't share this but hold onto it for safekeeping" measure, so if you know anyone who never got around to sending data to us (no matter what method they saved with), we'll still be happy to get a copy!

How much of that is fandom? At this point, all I can estimate is "somewhere around 300,000?" It is really impossible to know yet. I finished working on the metadata and will be uploading it soon, and sometime next spring (I hope!) we might begin on the more finely-detailed analysis that would let us identify individual fandoms and all of that.

A new Yahoo Groups Dreamwidth community has been started where you can keep up with the progress of  the Yahoo Gedden Rescue Team as they process and add metadata to the (gulp) million groups saved

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