Posts in Five Things
Five Things Whatsit Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with Whatsit, who volunteers as a Chair in training for the Policy & Abuse committee (PAC) and a Tag Wrangler. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? As a tag wrangler, I make sure that the fandoms I wrangle have properly canonized tags, which helps users find works that have the characters,… Read more
Five Things AuroraT Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with AuroraT, who volunteers as an administrative volunteer for Open Doors. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? I’m an administrative volunteer with the Open Doors Committee, which helps import at-risk digital archives to AO3 in order to preserve fanworks that might otherwise be lost. I’m responsible for project management, walking an… Read more
Five Things Julie Bozza Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with Julie Bozza, who volunteers as a Senior FSHP Volunteer and project manager for the Open Doors AO3 Fanzine Scan Hosting Project (FSHP) for Open Doors. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? I first did a Five Things in March 2022, for my role as an Open Doors Administrative Volunteer. Back… Read more
Five Things ladydragona Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with ladydragona, who volunteers as a Tag Wrangler. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? As a Tag Wrangler my job is to make sure the tags users use on their works are connected (‘synned’ or made a synonym) to the Canonical (Official) tag they most closely relate to, which allows users… Read more
Five Things calamario Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with calamario, who volunteers as a Tag Wrangler. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? As a tag wrangler, I work behind the scenes of AO3 to help organise the tags that users add to their works. This primarily involves creating new canonical tags (i.e., the tags that show up in the… Read more