Each of these committees, which include AO3 Documentation, Communications, Policy & Abuse, and Tag Wrangling, manages a part of the site.Īrchive of Our Own allows writers to publish any content, so long as it is legal. AO3 has approximately 700 volunteers, who help the organization by working on volunteer committees. The developers of the site allow users to submit requests for features on the site via a Jira dashboard. Īrchive of Our Own runs on open source code programmed almost exclusively by volunteers in the Ruby on Rails web framework. In 2018, the site's expenses were budgeted at approximately $260,000. Fanfiction authors from the site held an auction via Tumblr that year to raise money for Archive of Our Own, bringing in $16,729 with commissions for original works from bidders. īy 2013, the site's annual expenses were about $70,000. AO3 defines itself primarily as an archive and not an online community. The site's name was derived from a blog post by the writer Naomi Novik who, responding to FanLib's lack of interest in fostering a fannish community, called for the creation of "An Archive of One's Own." The name is inspired by the essay A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, in which Woolf said that a writer needed space, time, and resources in order to create. OTW created Archive of Our Own (abbreviated AO3) in October 2008 and established it as an open beta on 14 November 2009. This ultimately led to the creation of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) which sought to record and archive fan cultures and works. Fanfiction was authored primarily by women, and FanLib, which was run entirely by men, drew criticism. In 2007, a website called FanLib was created with the goal of monetizing fanfiction. The site has received positive reception for its curation, organization and design, mostly done by readers and writers of fanfiction. As of 28 November 2022, Archive of Our Own hosts 10,220,000 works in over 54,020 fandoms. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009. Archive of Our Own (often shortened to AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users.
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