Archive?

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

What does everybody think about doing an archive of all the Wodefic posted and linked to here?

See, this site being more or less the nexus of all things J/W, you can be reasonably confident that if it exists, it'll be here somewhere, and there's a better-than-average chance of the same for Psmith and Blandings fic, too. But it's not all neatly catalogued in the memories, or anything, so a lot of the people who're new to the fandom get stuck slogging back through months and months of old posts. I know several people got together a while ago and gathered stuff over at indeedsir_posts, which has often been my savior when looking for something, but that was in (*checks*) May 2005, and one or two things have been posted since. ^_^ And every time someone complains about not being able to find any J/W slash, here of all places, my heart goes out to them.

Suggestions? Volunteers to help compile a new list?

Comments

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

I would grovel at your feet in abject thankfulness if you were to do such a thing. I understand that del.icio.us is useful in doing nifty lists of fic?

Unfortunately I'm new here so not able to actually help digging up fic and classifying it :( - except for moral support perhaps?

[derien.livejournal.com]

I would love it. I was tring to keep a running set of links, myself, but abandoned the project a while back. Also, I felt bad about linking to fics that were bad (yes, there really ARE some badfics to be found on Indeedsir) and yet bad about NOT doing so because they were posted by members and I thought all members stories should definetly be linked.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to help, though I'm only available for the next couple of weeks.

Perhaps we could set up memories? Or, if you wanted to do an archive, I know HTML and can do the layout. Something as fancy as a search engine would have to be done by someone else, though. And we'd need a site.

If nothing else, I'm organized and can categorize fic. Just let me know how I can help!

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[really-watson.livejournal.com]

Oh very good idea! I've got 28 fics in my memories that I think are all toppers, (Link, should you care to pick any from there: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=really_watson&keyword=Jooster+fics&filter=all
But it would be nice to see others that are currently in other archives ie fanfiction.net and the slash cotillion archive.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I would love to see an automated archive for Wodehouse fiction. There is freely available software out there (and maybe even a few sites that would host it for us).

[derien.livejournal.com]

Anyone know what happened with jenavira's archive ? here's the link to the post... http://community.livejournal.com/indeedsir/19367.html

Also, if it's of any use, here's some things I put in my memories...

Fic http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=Indeedsir+FIC&filter=all

Filk http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=Indeedsir:+FILK&filter=all

Art http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=Indeedsir+ART&filter=all

anything having to do with Psmith http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=Indeedsir:+Psmith&filter=all

As I said, I just sort of ... stopped.

[mikhyel.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to help go through and find fics! I'm pretty new, and so I'm doing that anyway. (It's fun, though -- the conversations here are sometimes even more interesting than the fic, which is by and large awesome)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Add me to the volunteer list. May 2005 - January 2007 isn't that much of a backlog to go though. = )

[notatracer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this helps in any way, but I do the Fic List (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fryandorlaurie/31325.html) over at fryandorlaurie. And, what I did was put all the fic into a, well, list in an entry following the basic template of fic archive websites like ffn. The only big problem with doing that here is that since there's no mod, you can't link it in the info page or anything really.
Though, this del.icio.us thing might be worth investigating.

I've often thought that what this community needs is to just pull up roots and everybody move to something like 'indeedsir2'.

Good luck with your list & feel free to raid FandorL's J&W section of our list.

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

I'd be glad to help compile all the fic. That would be a day well spent. :D

[skyblue-reverie.livejournal.com]

This is a fantastic idea. You know, I've often thought that we really need a mod, so that we can change the userinfo to link to a fic list, or do other nifty things. Could we petition LJ to hand the reins over to someone new?

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

One-- not to sound all defensive, but our mod's email address is on the info page; I'm sure she'd be happy to link to an archive if we just asked.

Two-- Okay, so back in '02 (possibly earlier; probably before or right when I finally made the leap to LiveJournal), I attempted to make a J&W webpage. I never actually finished it, but I did compile this list of links to all the J&W fanfic I could find at the time -- het, gen, slash, whatever.

It was a lot harder to find quality fanfic back then. As you can see below, things were a lot... weirder. (While some of that stuff is not so much my cuppa tea, the part of me that revels in the wild, wacky weirdness of fandom is happy that it exists.) I left in the broken links in case anyone knows where to find those stories currently.

* A.C. Chapin's Jeeves And The Forbidden Vice (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~acc2a/story/jeevesvice.html).

* Aunty Mib's An Old Chestnut (http://aunty_mib.tripod.com/bertie.html).

* Bad Faery's (http://geocities.com/bad_faery/) work

* My good friend careena's untitled twelve-pager (http://geocities.com/permabachelor/) (Aw, she took it down.)

* David Shaw's Oh, Jeeves! (http://www.hootisland.com/text/eroticha/jeeves.html), written for Hoot Island (http://www.hootisland.com/) (Het. This story scarred me for life. (The het aspect is not what scarred me.))

* The Enigmatic Big Miss Sunbeam's nearly-gen True Jeeves (http://www.geocities.com/q_fuh_q_fest/true_jeeves.html), a Star Trek: TNG crossover.

* Gavin Steyn's gen, untitled (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/ranma/stories/ranma.jeeves) Ramma 1/2 crossover.

* Johnathan R. Partington's gen (and Lovecraftian? I think?) Bertie And The Blood Hunt (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2690/bertie.html).

* Katherine's untitled epistolary slash: Part One (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=puritybrown&itemid=25090#cutid1) and Part Two (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=puritybrown&itemid=25415#cutid1).

* LaCasta's gen A Wooster In Smallville (http://www.smallvillefanfic.com/archive/2/awooster.html) and its sequel The Heat Is On, Jeeves (http://www.smallvillefanfic.com/archive/9/theheat.html).

* Lemon Goddess' gen WIP, Rivalling Jeeves (http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=150171).

* Lucy's WIP: Chapters One (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lucylou/236671.html#cutid1), Two (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lucylou/236829.html#cutid1), and Three (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lucylou/237662.html#cutid1).

* M. Fae Glasgow's (writing as Cally Fornia Donia) His Master's Voice (http://www.oblique-publications.net/zines/paean.html#ptopiv) is available here (http://www.oblique-publications.net/zines/paean.html#ptopiv), at Oblique Publications (http://www.oblique-publications.net/).

* Jeeves And The Starfleet Officers (http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1679), by M. O'Ribund (gen).

* Merripestin's Fashion Policeman (http://merripestin.livejournal.com/27215.html).

* Omphale's Newt (http://cotillion.slashcity.org/efic/viewstory.php?sid=1591).

* Tim LeBon's The Existentialist Greyhound (http://members.aol.com/timlebon/jpsdogs.htm) (gen).

* Sue's My Man Jeeves (http://www.britslash.co.uk/sue/contents.htm).

* Timmerryn's Jeeves And The Understanding (http://pantheon.keenspace.com/wodehouse1.html), Thank You, Sir (http://pantheon.keenspace.com/wodehouse2.html), Love In The Afternoon (http://pantheon.keenspace.com/wodehouse3.html), the comic book-style Bertie Wooster Takes A Stand (http://pantheon.keenspace.com/wodehouse4-1.html), and Bertie In The Garden... (http://pantheon.keenspace.com/wodehouse-dialogues.html).

* Uncle Aussie's Bread Upon the Waters (http://www.smart.net/~tak/jamaica.html) (gen).

[godlessharlot.livejournal.com]

I know several people got together a while ago and gathered stuff over at [info]indeedsir_posts

I keep meaning to update that fic list, but I simply haven't had the time. :(

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm actually currently working on saving all the J/W I can to my hard drive. I don't know about an archive, but What If, after I finish, I put a zip file on megaupload or something, and then every month somebody can collect the fics and art of that month and do the same.

Also, does anyone know if it's possible for a mod to pass off the duties to another? Because if we can get in contact with her once, it makes more sense to ask her to do that.

[msliz4857.livejournal.com]

I'm more than happy to help! Just tell me what to do! :)