Five Things Rebecca Sentance Said
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Five Things Rebecca Sentance Said |
| Interviewer: | Claudia Rebaza |
| Interviewee: | Rebecca Sentance |
| Date(s): | May 9, 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Five Things Rebecca Sentance Said |
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Five Things Rebecca Sentance Said is a 2017 Q&A guest post, conducted by the Organization for Transformative Works' Communications Committee with OTW volunteer and "Organization for Transformative Works Documentations Committee" staff member Rebecca Sentance.
It was carried out as part of a series. See Five Things Said.
Excerpts
How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?
I’m a co-chair with the AO3 Documentation committee, also known as “Docs”, which handles the user-facing documentation for Archive of Our Own — things like FAQs, tutorials and screencasts. You can find our work over on the Archive FAQ page. Our job is to make sure that there’s clear and accessible documentation explaining the different functions of the Archive, which users can consult if they run into any issues.
For this we work closely with the Support Committee, making sure that our docs address the user queries that they’re getting; Accessibility, Design & Technology, to take interface changes and feature updates into account; and Translation, who make our documentation available in all sorts of languages.
I also wear another hat which is as a layout editor for the Transformative Works and Cultures academic journal, where I’m responsible for HTML tagging articles for publication in each issue. I’ve learned a lot about the world of academic HTML in the process!
What fannish things do you like to do?
I’ve been an avid reader and writer of fanfic ever since I was a teenager (well, there were also a few fanfics I wrote at a younger age before I discovered the wider online fanfic community, but we won’t talk about those…), and fandom has always been a big part of how I spend my free time. I started out reading fanfic on Quizilla, which was written as a second-person narrative with occasional responses to choose from, sort of like a fanfic choose-your-own-adventure. From there I progressed to Fanfiction.net, LiveJournal and AO3. My early fannish experiences were mainly in anime fandoms and Harry Potter, but I’ve since dabbled in all sorts of fandoms from The Road to El Dorado to Pirates of the Caribbean, Marvel Cinematic Universe and Inception.
In the past I’ve written some journalistic articles about fandom and fanworks for Paper Droids, an online magazine for geeky ladies. I also love to read about fandom, and record my fannish recollections over on Fanlore.