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I am not affiliated with this fandom history group, but they do great work. Their focus is mainly literary sci-fi fandom which took off in the 1930s.

FANAC Fan History Zoom publicity release

"We have less than a week until the next FANAC Fan History Zoom program. We have some very knowledgeable fans on this program and it promises to be an enlightening subject in an often overlooked area of our field. This is the last FANAC Fan History Zoom for this season. Join us!.

Please get the word out to all your friends.

The Women Fen Don't See

Claire Brialey, Kate Heffner, and Leah Zeldes Smith

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Time: 3PM EDT, 2PM CDT, Noon PDT, 7PM London (GMT), and Mar 17 at 6AM AEDT in Melbourne

To attend, send a note to fanac@fanac.org

Supernatural fans, if you collect fanfic and podfic, a large personal collection assembled by multiple fans will be going offline in 2 months. Details here and here

First up - my numbers are pulled from memory and are most likely off. By a lot.

My friend MPH and I spent last year helping an East Coast fan process the 1700+ zine collection that she had inherited from 3 older fans. This is still ongoing.

We identified every zine that needed scanning (a lot more than we thought there would be), then worked with the universities who are still accepting zines (so few now, see below) to find homes. Un-scanned zines were shipped to my friend MPH for scanning (around 700), then onwards to their destinations. We even recruited another University (Michigan State) to take a few unwanted zines. The collection owner is still in the process of shipping and MPH is still scanning. After all is done, the fan may have 400 zines that no university wants but will offer up to fans.

I also received a surprise donation (door to door delivery) of 180 zines over the summer. Those were also sent to MPH for scanning, then onwards to Texas A&M University.

In the midst of this I realized I had waited too long to donate my remaining zine collection - Iowa will not allow me to add any new items - even non duplicates or items they do not have. Texas A&M University would only take non-duplicated items and they already have the zines in my remaining collection. I shipped a small amount of zines to the UK K/S Project. I smile every time I think of my zines - with my name lightly penciled on the inside covers like a dog-eared copy of a favorite novel - wandering the world.

And finally, the

escapade Fanzine Library was handed over to

franzeska for safekeeping. I scanned a few of those zines myself but I could not scan the Velobound ones since I lack the machine to put them back together. She plans to keep the Library intact as a collection. I will most likely send my remaining fanzine collection over to her as well.

So there we have it - there are (or were) 4-5 universities in the US who collect fanzines.

Current Status

Iowa - will not take anything. Or maybe they will? My collection is sadly closed to me.
TAMU - only if not already in their collection
UC Riverside - only sci-fi and fantasy (sorry other TV and movie fandoms) and only if not duplicated
Bowling Green (Ohio) - ????Have not spoken to them in a while, need to check
Michigan State - only well known, recent fandoms (Buffy, Harry Potter, Z-Files) and they can only accept a few each year

There are other places listed on the Open Doors website

This is not to discourage fans from reaching out to any of the places listed on the Open Door's website to find homes for their zines. In fact, your collection may fit into gaps that a university needs to fill or they might have some other special interest.

Also, if you have Star Trek fanzines, KS Fanzine Library is still active. In the US they are rebuilding the library, the EU is still up and running. And if you have Beauty and the Beast fanzines they have a lending library. Blake's 7 fans have their own Discord server and trade fanzines. There is a small 300 person Facebook group for fanfiction fanzines (buy and sell). Dr Who fanzines were historically light on fanfiction, trending more towards essays and newsletters, but there is an active 1000 person Dr Who fanzine collector Facebook group.

And no matter what - we'd love to hear about your collection - there are thousands of zines that have never been scanned and you might just have the missing issues. Or you might have a better copy or one with the missing pages. We are always looking for newsletters, letterzines, APAs, flyers and convention program guides - the bits and bobs that show how we connected with one another before online communities

What happens to the scans?
They are used to support 3 projects:
1. The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Fanzine Collection at Texas A&M University (mainly limited onsite access, deposited with publisher permission)
2. Open Door's Fanzine Scan Hosting Project
3. The Fanfiction Fanzine Collection on the Internet Archive (zines uploaded with publisher permission).

Can I Help?
Yes, you can! If you have zines, email us a list of the titles (we need Fandom and Titles). If you want to find homes for them, we ask that you allow us to scan ones that we do not already have. If you want to hold onto them, we still would love to see the list and borrow some for non-destructive scanning (we pay for the shipping).

What is our most urgent need?
We need project managers to help us inventory and add meta data about the zines we have scanned. We cannot recruit any volunteers until we have at least 2 fans willing to give a 1 year commitment to getting the inventory started. Right now our team is small (3 people) and we're all hands on deck scanning and preserving. Save first, count later.

Come record your fandom memories. The Media Fandom Oral History project is now open to anyone who wants to participate.

Details here

Season 1

14 August 2011 - Slash Cast

21 August 2011 - Comic books with The Hoyden

28 August 2011 - Hurricane Safari with Merelyn and Twentysomething

4 September 2011 - Anon Kink Memes and Writing with Leupagus

18 September 2011 - Rookie Seasons

25 September 2011 - Hawaii Five-0 with Leupagus

27 September 2011 - Emergency Delicious Broadcast

My friend Kathy Resch has been publishing fanzines since 1975. Many of her zine masters were lost in a house fire and we're looking for people with copies of the following willing to loan them to us for scanning for her

Please send me a message at my gmail address MorganDawn if interested.

Beauty and the Beast Mask: Tales from the Underground #2, 5, 7

Blake's 7 -A Delicate Balance (gen)

Blake's 7 -Checkers: (adult Het)

Blake's 7 -Fire and Ice #5, 8

Dark Shadows -Beginnings: the Island of Ghosts

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1840

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1897

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1968

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1970

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1991

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance Leviathan (2003)

Dark Shadows -DAVID HOFSTEDE'S DARK SHADOWS VIDEO REVIEWS

Dark Shadows -FROM THE SHADOWS – VIRGINIA WALDRON (DARK SHADOWS)

Dark Shadows -From the Shadows...Marcy Robin

Dark Shadows -If Tomorrow Never Comes

Dark Shadows -Jessica

Dark Shadows -My Boy Willie

Dark Shadows -Never and Again

Dark Shadows -Passion in the Shadows

Dark Shadows -Rebirth of the Undead

Dark Shadows -Secrets in the Shadows

Dark Shadows -Shadowed Beginnings

Dark Shadows -SHADOWS IN THE 90s

Dark Shadows -Summer’s Son

Dark Shadows -Tales from the Shadows # 1:

Dark Shadows -The Winds of Eternity

Dark Shadows -The Year the Fire Came

Dark Shadows -What If the Night Never Ended and the Day Never Came?

Horatio Hornblower -Adventure and Adversity # 1

Multiple Fandoms -No Holds Barred #5, 17

Star Trek -Kaleidoscope # 3-6

V “V” - Martin - a Novel of Reconciliation - V

OK time for stats on my #VHS #VideoTape #digitiztion project

1. I have 291 mainly #VHS videotapes of #fanvids (or #songtapes / #songvids

2. I received most of them back in the 2010s - my progress is glacial

3. I still have 178 more videotapes to convert. Some of these are duplicates but given the poor tape quality, the plan is to convert all of them

4. My lossless conversion setup no longer works (capture cards have grown worse over the years and the ones I had only worked with OS that no longer runs aka Win XP). So I am relying on DVD-Recorder to digitize what I can.

What is a songtape or a songvid?

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Songtape_Collection

#archiving #FandomHistory #vidding

squidgestatus posted: Jinjurly Archive - Phase II

If folks aren't aware, the Jinjurly Audiofic Archive - a spot for podfics - is hosted here on Squidge.org. We (and I mean we, several volunteers) have restored what we could out of the missing podfics that were located. We crowdsourced the spreadsheet and recovered more than 4,300 of the 5078 missing files. But that means we still have almost 800 files outstanding.

Can you help?

The spreadsheet of missing files has been updated, and is located here. If you've grabbed the odd podfic over the years and think you might have some of these, please update the spreadsheet with what you have, and where we might be able to download it from. Then we can finish complete restoration of the files.

The archive thanks you!

I am still recovering from my hard drive crash.

I have 25 TB of data - fanvids, fanzine PDF cans and older mailing list plus all my personal files.

I decided this would be a good time to consolidate the fandom files from 3 separate external portable drives to one large external drive - and since the computer hard drive replacement was relatively affordable. I started the lengthy migration process. Over USB cables - yes it takes a loooong time.

Made even longer by the fact that several of the convention vid show folders had corrupted files. So once I complete the migration I will use file comparison software and go folder by folder - if the folders/files mismatch I will pull the DVDs (most of the convention vid show I have are either digitized from VCR VHS footage or were released by the conventions themselves on DVD).

The last thing I learned is that my backup software was set to the default - and so only basked up recognizable file formats (word, pdf, mpg). It ignored the "system files" that are necessary to create a playable DVD.

So it is a good thing I am migrating because I can

1. Find and replace corrupted files and
2. Redo my backups so they will include all files.

I think it will take another 4 days for the consolidation of the fandom files - then maybe another week?? 2 weeks for the initial backup to a second external drive to run and complete

Then I can start on my personal files.....

For the past two years, fans have been gathering on discord every week to watch original Star Trek episodes, with selected television ads from the era and chat about the show as if we were watching it all for the first time in the 1960s.

Since we have reached the year of 1968, Star Trek fanzines have been appearing and tonight's event consists of Gideon Marcus reading from some of these early newsletters. If you'd like to join, there is a Discord invite below. I encourage people to also sign up to the mailing list because each week you're informed is to what will be read or watched

When: Thursday, March 24th at 6:30 p.m. Pacific/9:30 p.m. Eastern

https://discord.com/invite/j33R2Cxxaa

"We will be back to our usual schedule next week when we watch the last episode of Season 2, followed by the reruns of the entire season"

Universities don't like to pay for shipping and storing duplicate zines and other fannish memorabilia if they already have them on hand. By the time we turn our attention to donating our collections, we're often working with limited time or energy/health and creating that all important list may seem beyond reach

You can create a bare bones index using a very fast and easy method - read out loud the title and a friend on the other end of the phone, zoom etc. writes or types it down. Instant index and it can be very fun for both of you as you look back on your time in fandom. You can process a collection quickly that way. And the university are more likely to accept your collection if they know what is in it. And frankly, even if you just want to give way your zines - other fans are more likely to be interested if they know what you have.

*If you have 45 boxes of zines you might need to do this over several days or weekends. So a little planning will go a long way.

flamingo needs help proofing mimeograph era fanfiction written by two popular Starsky and Hutch fan writers: Terri Becket and Chris Powers. The Vas and Dex universe was an early example of fandom inspired original m/m fanfic.
Beckett and Power were enamored of "Starsky and Hutch" when it was airing, but they were "fans in isolation"--not knowing that fandom existed. They decided to write their own stories, which they based on Starsky and Hutch. The two authors kept writing Vas & Dex even after they discovered Starsky & Hutch fandom. At that point, the two original characters had taken on a life of their own.  

Since the originals were printed on mimeo paper, the OCR conversion is iffy in spots (example below). You can work at your own pace. DM or email me: morgandawn@gmail.com  

Original

Text:  
Th® hall echoed with the voices of all nSao hundred odd recruit® taking the® oath of service as PaitJolaen on probation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 

 Two hours later, with • now uniform, a badge, a gun, end a room* number apiece, they wore turned loose to get themselves stscdshtaaed out, find their way around, and get to know those detailed to Join the same classes and share the snail, tain-bunked rooms,

Vastarnyi, Angeleno born and bred, figured he already knew his surroundings, and he had things to pick up from his room above the hardware store before moving into the room that would be home for the next thirteen weeks. He headed for the parking lot and his motor¬cycle. It was a Harley Davidson, or had been) by now the manufacturers might have had difficulty recognising their bastardised child. The machine had been stripped down and tuned up so many times by a succes¬sion of enthusiastic owners, each with his own idea of what the bike should look like, that it now bore little resemblance to the original model

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

yahoogroups

A small amount of fanzines published in the 1980s-2000s are being sold by the publishers family* to raise funds for charity. Cost is $5 plus shipping. They cover multiple fandoms, a few Stars Wars, Star Trek, X-Files and some Miami Vice.

The for sale list is here

The zine listed as OFT is "Our Favorite Things" a multiple fandom zine. You can read more about this zine on Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Our_Favorite_Things

Vice Verse is a Miami Vice zine
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Vice_Verse_(Miami_Vice_zine)

And you can learn more about the other zines on Fanlore as well. https://fanlore.org

Email me at morgandawn @ gmail.com I will forward your email to the family who is selling the zines (they are based in the US).

Publishers were Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, two sisters who have since passed away.

Another fanfiction #fanzine rescue. A fan wants to donate 2 boxes of fanzines. She is looking for a volunteer to box & transport to the post office in the Triangle/Triad region of / Northern Carolina. Shipping costs are covered. #fandomhistory. Timeline within next 2 weeks.

squidgestatus posted: SquidgeWorld Is Looking For An Archivist

Add stories from Peja's Wonderful World of Makebelieve to the new archive

dw_community_promo posted: The March Meta Matters Challenge Is Returning...

...for year 3! The marchmetamatterschallenge 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.

While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site and collection host.

This will be a month-long event kicking off on March 1 with bi-weekly check-ins. March Meta Matters will close on April 1.

Find out more about the challenge through our introduction or the FAQ. Feel free to leave questions on either post.

ride_4ever posted: Help Restore the Audiofic Archive

squidgiepdx and mific -- bless them for putting their love of fandom into this action -- are coordinating fen to help with the restoration of the Jinjurly Audiofic Archive after the hacking catastrophe that led to the disappearance of a vast number of podfics from the Archive. If you have podfics to share, you may be able to help this effort, and even if you don't have podfics to share you could help with downloading, renaming, and zipping files.

For how to help, including use of the spreadsheet created for this purpose, see the squidgestatus post on DW.

Fandom Oral History - is about recording our fandom memories. It is now in a DIY stage - where fans reminisce with their fan friends about how they got into fandom and record the conversations over Zoom or via our online audio system. They then submit the recording to the archives

Looking for: a project lead. A volunteer to organize, recruit and supervise, with a 1 year commitment. Time estimate per week: 2-3 hrs

More details: Contact us here to apply

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1735409.html

Hello, there is an aging fan in Indianapolis who needs help boxing up and shipping 12-13 boxes of fanzines. If you know of someone willing to help, please have them email me at morgandawn @ gmail.com

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1732866.html

In 2010, I attended Vividcon a fan run vidding convention. It offered a 'swap table' where people could leave DVDs, CDs, books for free (a small donation to the convention to help pay for the free snacks was encouraged). That year someone left multiple data CDs with fanvids

No one was interested so I gathered them up & brought them home. They were older fanvids - a few from 1996, most between 2002-2009. They were small in size & low resolution & some were from vidders who had already remastered them into larger and better online viewing

In the early-mid 2000s online streaming was not feasible for many, so fanvids needed to be small in size and downloaded to computers to be watched. Fandoms included: Angel, Buffy, Dark Angel, Due South, Farscape, Firefly, Harry Potter, Highlander, Invisible Man, Lord of the Rings....

Queer As Folk (US), Sentinel, Slings and Arrows, Smallville, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Voyager, Star Wars, Stargate SG1, Witchblade, Xena

I finally have a searchable index online so if you are one of the vidders, feel free to drop me a note for a copy of your older vids. Note that I am one person so if I get too many requests (unlikely but thought I'd mention it anyway) it may take awhile. https://zinedom.org/cd_spindle_fanvids/

The complete list of vidders is here. I The names are listed as they were stored on the data CDs, but I abbreviated last names on this page https://zinedom.org/vidders-vividcon-cd-spindles/

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1731646.html

In late 2019, fans assembled to save Yahoo Groups after Verizon decided to shut down the mailing list service. Approximately 300,000 fandom groups have been saved. The Yahoo Gedden project has reached the fandom identification stage and can use your help. We need to identify the fandom for each group so that the data can be sorted by fandom. You can work at your own pace and the work will be done via a shared Google Sheet. No software or other tools needed besides your phone/computer and access to the Internet..

See the spreadsheet for details on how to help:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uv4XbJMs_YZA1UcO_RlZo5u1JSuBJf_Lm7k3tAb1NZo/edit?usp=sharing

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1731393.html

marchmetamatterschallenge posted: The March Meta Matters Challenge Is Returning!

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1730599.html

aethel posted: podfic on the Internet Archive

Currently there are 3400+ podfics publicly available on the Internet Archive. You can also edit the metadata on an item to set "noindex" to "true", with the result that the item is not findable on the site, so the actual number of podfics is greater.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1729401.html

Dusk reports

"With perfect timing (Yahoo Groups will be going permanently belly up in a few days), doranwen has gifted fandom with the metadata - group descriptions, etc. - of "all 960,613 confirmed GMD groups [i.e. the Yahoo Groups that were saved last winter], plus 150,394 other groups (many of which had been long-dead by the time we came across their names, referenced only in links within other groups)." doranwen labored for months on this massive project and deserves fandom's hearty thanks. Here's doranwen's announcement with a link to the Internet Archive files:

Yahoo Groups metadata uploaded..."

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1727794.html

Ugh, had my first really unpleasant experience with eBay purchasing. I had just placed a bid on several Beauty & The Beast fanzines and even more importantly an incredibly rare collection of Beauty & The Beast convention fan videos.

Earlier in the week, I had purchased a significant number of fanzines from the seller who claimed to offer combined shipping. But when I checked out this time yesterday, the combined shipping offer was not available. I contacted them, and they explained to me I had to cancel the order , and then resubmit.

The good news is that I did get my full refund, the seller relisted, and I repurchased it. But once again, the option for combined shipping was not available. In the hours during which we were working together to figure out why it was happening, the Beauty & The Beast DVDs were sold to somebody else. Technically, this was within her rights, and I'm not out any money.

I am now waiting nervously to find out whether the other items I purchased

earlier in the week will actually arrive. Her shipping tracking numbers seem to be off, and there are some items that I did purchase that do not have any associated tracking numbers. I'm fairly confident that I'll be able to get a refund if they do not arrive, but lesson learned. Once I receive the items and it is safe. I'll leave an appropriate review

The saddest part of this, is that I had planned to donate the Beauty & The Beast convention DVDs to the Treasure Chambers historical aarchive, a group of dedicated fans who have been doing amazing work preserving their fandom's history

Check out their work

https://treasurechambers.com/TCBBUniverse.html

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1726358.html

the new blog seems to focus on all aspects of digital preservation, both online and in the tangible world (VHS videotape transfer) . Two of recent fandom related projects are prominently featured, including Yahoo! Groups preservation efforts as well as 8tracks playlists and cover art back up .

https://data-horde.blogspot.com/

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1723598.html

fandomhistoryproject posted: Links roundup (click for full set of links)

GENERAL
marchmetamatterschallenge. "As sites hosting art, text, music, and more continue to either close up shop or change their Terms of Service, there have been various efforts to save content on what is often very short notice. It would be even better if fans gave our works this attention before a crisis hits. 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. . . . The priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved."
fanlore. "Supporting and creating community among the editors of the Fanlore wiki."
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, a 2016 book by Abigail De Kosnik. "An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how 'digital cultural memory' differs radically from print-era archiving." See also a three-part interview with the author and a review of the book at Transformative Works and Cultures.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1723365.html

timeanddate.com

Yahoo Groups Countdown Timer

Countdown to Jan 31, 2020 11:00 pm. Showing days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down to 0

Back in December, due to the hard work of many people (including the OTW who wrote a letter to Verizon asking for more time) we were granted an extension on the time limit we had to join Yahoo Groups and request copies of the group archives. That deadline ends tomorrow Jan 31, 2020. If you are a member of any Yahoo Group you still have 24 hrs+ to sign into Yahoo and request a copy of your Groups archives. You will get a copy of all the messages and the files ever posted to the Group (no photos however, those have been deleted).

How to request your Group data: https://yahoo-geddon.tumblr.com/post/188638695729/yahoo-groups-deletion-requesting-your-groups

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1722680.html

fandomcalendar posted: Multifandom: March Meta Matters Challenge

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.

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.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1722179.html

doranwen posted: Saving Yahoo Groups - fandom representation?

So here's the final call: If you want more groups saved, come help. If you want a list of groups for you to save, join our Discord and ask. (Link found here.) I can run a search of a partial (it's impossible to get a complete list out there - we're having to do all manner of processing data to get what we've got) list of groups for any keyword or keyword combination, or search specific categories for more groups than can be found in the directory itself, and I'm happy to do so.

But please don't show up later and wonder why we didn't save your favorite fandom, Western or non-Western.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1721805.html

We still have a few more weeks before Yahoo Groups shuts down access to data downloads. You can help by creating a Yahoo ID and joining Yahoo Groups. We’ll do the rest.

We’re hoping to join thousands of Yahoo Groups, ranging from Harry Potter to Xena, from Lord of the Rings to Star Trek, Anime and RPG, and from Star Wars to Furries.

Instructions here

Tumblr: https://yahoo-geddon.tumblr.com/post/190172491629/were-not-dead-yet-volunteers-needed-for-final

Twitter: https://twitter.com/morgandawn6/status/1215799887263961089

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1720300.html

First: fans are gathering and tracking the tags they are archiving here. We can only grab 1000 playlists per tag so if your fandom has more than 1k, you will need to add additional tags to get the number down. How to extract links

Thanks to

vidderkidder , we now have an Excel spreadsheet that will archive the playlist info (note: the playlist text file will be in a json format, but using the spreadsheet is a super fast way to getting the metadata and the covers).

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Download: http://bit.ly/8trackback
(you will need to have Macros enabled to run the spreadsheet)

Use the first sheet tab to paste your URLs and click the button to run.

What it will do:

*Extract relevant meta data from the playlist page and put it in your Excel Spreadsheet

*Download the JSON file with the playlist details to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)

*Download the cover photo for each playlist to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)

What you should do:

*Paste urls on the first column of the first sheet tab

Create a folder on your desktop called 8tracks

Click the button.

When you are done and you want to run a new batch copy the info to the second tab

Clear out the old urls and relevant info on the first tab and paste in the new urls and run again.

If you have any questions let me know.

My email is admin@vidders.net.

I have assisted on projects to backup tumblr, Yahoo Groups and now 8tracks.

I am the admin of vidders.net the largest streaming vidding network online.

You can share this sheet with anyone who would like to do the same thing you are about to do

Again if there are any questions just email.

edited: if you are using [Bad username or unknown identity: vidderkidder's] Excel VBA macro, he did a tutorial video
https://youtu.be/4WlI4yGW-8M

vidderkidder is offering to help fans who have a large number of Fanmixes they need downloaded

https://yahoo-geddon.tumblr.com/post/189949811999/psa-8tracks-is-shutting-down

if you ever created a fan mix on 8-track, or enjoyed a fan mix on 8-track, you only have a few days in which to archive . The good news is that anyone can archive any fan mix.... you don't have to be the creator. The bad news is that there are only a few days.

https://twitter.com/ThatAuntZelda/status/1210592982954631171

Migration details https://meanderings0ul.tumblr.com/post/189900846211/lots-of-us-got-the-8tracks-email-today-and-are

Edited: Info about the Archive Team's plans to save 8Tracks https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=8tracks

If you want to help the Archive Team, install Archive Team Warrior
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

and join them on their IRC channel
https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/#8ball

First off, a huge thank you to everyone working on the Yahoo! Groups . This week the Archive Team learned that Verizon had blocked their access to 80% of the groups that they were hoping to archive. For the fandom community, this represents 100% loss of access to the groups that we had submitted to the Archive Team for preservation . A call went out a few days ago for volunteers and we received a good number of them . Please consider pitching in helping before the December 11 deadline.

What we now need are people to create more YahooIDs for others. (If you are planning to volunteer to actually archive Groups, help us by creating your own Gmail and YahooID).

Step 1. Create a new dedicated Gmail account (create only one becauses there are lifetime limits)
Step 2: Create a YahooID using the new Gmail account. Below the main YahooID email box (where it asks you use a Yahoo email to set up your YahoID) there is tiny little print that says: "use your existing email address". Plug in the new Gmail account and fill in the info.

Since we're sharing these log-ins these need to be dedicated Gmails and Yahoo ID. In other words, don't use your personal Yahoo ID or Google email. Once you make a gmail and Yahoo ID (use the same log in and password for both), email us the log in information (both the log in and password for both).

Email address: archiver1.fandom@gail.com

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1719497.html

If you were a member of YahooGroups, you can save every Group that you ever belonged to (assuming you are still a member). You submit a request to Verizon/Yahoo Groups, they respond in 48-72 hours and give you zipped files to download. You can submit those files to us for delivery to Open Doors.

Requesting Your Yahoo Groups Before Deletion

You can request your Yahoo Groups directly from Yahoo. It will take several days for them to prepare and requests must be submitted and the files downloaded before the Dec 14, 2019 deletion date.

What will you get?

1. All of the Groups that you have joined (and still are a member of)

2. Every Message sent by anyone to those Groups.

3. Messages will be in a mbox format (you can read messages with Thunderbird Email Program or Via MboxViewer or Sylpheed)

4. Only some of the Files and No Photos

5. Links (if the Group used them)

Databases and polls are not included.

All Groups will be compressed into one single zipped file.

Yahoo will only include Groups you are a member of up to the date of your request.

Go to: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata

When you receive the data, submit it to us. Stop by our Discord server https://discord.gg/DyCNddf or send us an email to: archiver1.fandom@gmail.com

How long and how big?

One Yahoo Group member was a member of 17 Yahoo Groups. It took Yahoo a few days and the zipped download file was 1.1 GB Photos and some files were missing.

Another member: Member of 3 Groups, the download was 36MB - Photos and files were missing.

Warning: Do not rely on this as your sole backup of your Yahoo Group data . If you want a complete backup of all your Files and Photos, we suggest using the free Windows program PGOffline.

Please signal boost

(Updated Nov 30, 2019).

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1718892.html

We Need Your Help Saving Yahoo Groups (14 days left)

We have only 14 days to save Yahoo Groups! Help us join groups. No technical knowledge required!

Simple steps (link)

Step 1: Contact us for your YahooID and password: archiver1.fandom@gmail.com

Step 2: Claim a tab (add your name)

Step 3: Join all the groups on your tab.

Step 4: Email us at archiver1.fandom@gmail.com to let us know you finished.

Questions? Email us or Join us on the Discord Chat Forum: https://discord.gg/DyCNddf

(updated 11/30/2019)

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1718605.html

“You can reclaim groups with old e-mail addresses using the memwiz (https://joshuatj.com/2018/07/18/your-email-address-is-not-linked-to-a-yahoo-id-yahoo-groups/). It works even if your e-mail just happens to be same as a long deleted one. I’ve recreated some hotmail e-mails that don’t exist anymore ….and tried the memwiz on them. Most had no groups attached but two have and I was given access to them.”

See: Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID — Yahoo! Groups

https://joshuatj.com/2018/07/18/your-email-address-is-not-linked-to-a-yahoo-id-yahoo-groups/

REMEMBER: Your deadline is December 14, 20-19. At that point Yahoo will delete all Group data.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1718289.html

Time to dust off that old Yahoo ID, log in and see if you are still a member of a Yahoo Group. I am happy to help you download/archive your Yahoo Groups. PM me at morgandawn@gmail.com

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1718141.html

Want to help save Yahoo Groups but aren't a member? Don't have time to install software and download? You can help by simply submitting join requests to Yahoo Groups and let Yahoo or others do the downloading. Details Here: https://tinyurl.com/yxs7ed7g

PGOffline has ended its free unlimited trial. The new trial will only download 1000 messages. The license to do a full download is a one time fee of $25. This limitation is not indicated on either the license download page or the purchase page.
More info: http://personalgroupware.com/smf/index.php?topic=1340.msg6294#msg6294

If you cannot afford the $25 fee, three is a free Chrome tool that will download just the messages. Look for details under Section 9.

You can also join the Discord Channel: ~~https://discord.gg/ek2xFyJ~~ https://discord.gg/DyCNddf and ask for help.

Finally, you can submit a request for volunteers to download your Yahoo Group: https://forms.gle/cXi9iF5QXFB4zd3G9

(Read the full updated "What Each Of Us Can Do To Help" post here)

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1717107.html

You may be able to request your Yahoo Groups directly from Yahoo. It will take several weeks for them to prepare and requests must be submitted before the Dec 14, 2019 deletion date to capture the files and other photos.

What will you get?

1. All of the Groups that you have joined.

2. Every message sent by anyone to those Groups.

3. Messages will be in a mbox format (you can read these Files with Thunderbird Email Program or Via MboxViewer)

4. Only some of the Files or Photos (we have no clue as to how they choose what to include. Photos often are missing)

5. Links (if the Group used them)

Databases and polls are not included.

All Groups will be compressed into one single zipped file.

Yahoo will only include Groups you are a member of up to the date of your request.

Go to: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata

How long and how big?

One Yahoo Group member reported that they have finally received a response to the Yahoo “GetMyData" Request.

They were a member of 17 Yahoo Groups. It took Yahoo 10 days and the zipped download file was 1.1 GB

Warning: Do not rely on this as your sole backup of your Yahoo Group data

Please signal boost

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1716960.html

Want to alert your mailing lists of the impending Yahoo-Gedden? Attempting to join a mailing list to help download files? Informal sample messages below.

Samples here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-B0FCZasFT95AsOJSLJEQTZgph3V_l9_CHxLDVyS194/edit?usp=sharing

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1716528.html

We need to find more links to fandom themed Yahoo Groups

1. If you want to help, try few of these Google Searches (these are only examples)

Then add your links here (one link per line)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12aoSgO_xn8gjlZEgTDt6tCGCZa8PJwhoM5n4ZvbDPy4/edit?usp=sharing

site:www.oocities.org groups.yahoo slash
site:www.oocities.org groups.yahoo slash "fanfiction"
site:www.oocities.org groups.yahoo slash "fan fiction"
site:www.oocities.org yahoo group "fanfiction"

"groups.yahoo" "fanfiction" -fanfiction.net
"groups.yahoo" "fan fiction" -fanfiction.net
"groups.yahoo" "slash" -fanfiction.net -fanlore

"groups.yahoo" "slash" site:angelfire.com
"groups.yahoo" "fanfiction" site:angelfire.com

site:www.geocities.ws "groups.yahoo" "slash"
"fan fiction" "groups.yahoo" site: geocities.ws
"fanfiction" "groups.yahoo" site: geocities.ws

You can add fandoms as well

site:www.oocities.org groups.yahoo buffy

2. Or you can browse the Internet Archive for links to old Groups and check to see if they're active today

Ex: Buffy  http://web.archive.org/web/20050226132445/http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Entertainment___Arts/Television/Genres/Horror/Titles/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer/Fan_Fiction?st=70&show_groups=1 (click on the next page to advance, there are 80 captured)

Xena (only 1 page) http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Entertainment___Arts/Television/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Titles/Xena:_Warrior_Princess/Fan_Fiction?show_groups=1

Some Phantom Menace: http://web.archive.org/web/20030405175958/http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Entertainment___Arts/Movies/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Series/Star_Wars_Series/Fan_Fiction?show_groups=1

Anyway, the starting point to look under fandoms is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20020223213956/http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Entertainment___Arts/Humanities/Books_and_Writing/Fan_Fiction/Television_Shows

3. Never liked history? Then head over to the current Yahoo Group Fandom Categories and look for Groups

Comics: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600017755

To find Fan Fiction for bookies, movies and TV, start with the Categories then drill down

TV: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600035298

can lead you to TV-->Genre-->Cop Shows---> Titles
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600035953

Movies: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600021782

Or just look under Genre (Sci-Fi/Mystery): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600109408

Last, look under the Book-Writing FanFiction: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600213040

Ex: Harry Potter: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1600754260

Tolkien/LOTR: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/dir/1601410403

Feel free to boost this signal

Updated 10/25/2019

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1716446.html

We are working on a longer version but here is the quick and dirty

For adult and copyrighted content, your best option is Dreamwidth Communities as it allows the widest range and supports transformative use. If your mailing list does not depict any sexual activity or involves copyrighted material, you can spend $220 a year and migrate to Groups.io. You can also start a new, adult mailing list on Google Groups as long as it does not touch on non-con, incest, underage, or bestiality. Both Dreamwidth and Google Groups will require that you download and store your message archives and files/photos in other locations. Finally, there are chat rooms like Slack or Discord that could be used to start a new fan space without any of the existing content.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1716090.html

~~This would be to help fans working on downloading yahoo groups stay in touch~~

Server set up: invite: ~~https://discord.gg/ek2xFyJ~~ https://discord.gg/DyCNddf

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1715620.html

Step by step guide and PGOffline Tutorial
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1678027.html

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1715341.html

(Updated Oct 25, 2019)

Starting Oct 28, 2019 no new files (photos, documents, etc) will be allowed to be uploaded. Starting Dec 14, 2019, Yahoo Groups will be limited to emails only - functions like digest will be eliminated and all files and photos will be deleted. Admins will have limited tools and all groups will be invite only. And archives of existing messages will not longer be accessible.

What To Do?

I have a step by step guide here. The short version

1. Admins - back up your Groups and decide whether and where to move
2. Members - back up your Groups - don't leave this to the admins.
3. Everyone - consider documenting Yahoo Groups on Fanlore, help spread the word

The OTW has made an announcement. Their Open Doors preservation program is open to providing storage of Yahoo Groups backups that are assembled by moderators and non-moderators alike. Details here.

Fans are gathering on a Discord Channel to chat and ask for and give help: https://discord.gg/ek2xFyJ (updated invite)

Please follow the Yahoo Group Rescue Tumblr for updates

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1715001.html

It cost 50 cents, was printed on construction paper and was published in 1967. It is one of the most widely circulated Star Trek fanzines, having a print run of over 25,000 copies. Each issue of ’Spockanalia’ had many examples of Roddenberry, Fontana, DeForest Kelley, and other Star Trek creators’ interest, if not direct, comments and assistance. By issue #3, Gene Roddenberry and his production staff had taken even more note of the fanzine and submitted a letter to the editors stating:

“SPOCKANALIA is "required reading” for everyone in our offices, and I am most distressed that you were not told of this before. We have used all the extra copies to make sure that every new writer, and anyone who makes decisions on show policy have read your fanzine, and Juanita Coulson’s ST-PHILE. The reason for this is that if we all understand what the fans see in the show, and try to understand why they are fans at all, we can then continue to hold those fans. Certain fanzines, and yours is one of them, have a mature and well- written format that is very instructive to our staff.“

You can read more about the fanzine on Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Spockanalia

It has been uploaded with publisher Devra Langsam’s permission.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1714403.html

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