#save yahoo groups

As we get down to the wire, it’s become a mad dash to save as much Yahoo content as possible. Without OTW’s (Organization for Transformative Work) help the archive wouldn’t be able to archive a FRACTION of the content that it’s going to archive. We’ve currently stored 400+ Sites and we’re looking to preserve Yahoo’s Sim groups as well.

During this time fandoms have banded together to gather as much fanwork as possible (including sims content) as well as fanfiction, fanart, and various fan work in communities for television shows, movies, bands, and other games.

If you have a moment or if you can reblog this to signal boost please do. The only way that we can retrieve, organize, and store such a large amount of data is by volunteer contribution. The only way that Sim Archive will be able to store this content is if you can help OTW’s Yahoo Group’s committee do its job!

You can follow along with the process on this Tumblr.

You can join the discord here.

And send an Email here.

Five years ago, with little notice, Yahoo announced Yahoo Groups was being deleted. An army of fans and other archivists swung into action and saved nearly a million groups in all - 14 terabytes of data.

We're now ready for the next step of the Save Yahoo Groups project: Tagging!

Are you detail-oriented and careful? Do you tend to ask lots of questions when in any doubt? Are you able to use Google Sheets/Docs at a basic level? Then you have the skills we need.

If you can read languages other than English, are comfortable installing a simple program and following a visual guide to importing mbox files, or have extensive knowledge about a particular subject, you can help too!