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Gundam Wing Addiction was created to serve as a home for Gundam Wing fanfiction authors, particularly those without a homepage, when I realized the plight of fic writers without the time -or HTML knowledge- to set up their own site. Therefore, a major requirement is that all GW fics by any author hosted here be archived: an all-or-nothing kind of deal, and a one-way street: once in, there is no way out.

Gundam Wing Addiction is a closed archive, meaning that submissions are not accepted. Please do not send submissions by email: there are a lot of fanfiction websites out there whose webmasters are happy to receive submissions, and most of them can be found through Anipike or GW webrings, mailing lists and forums.

By contrast, archiving at Gundam Wing Addiction is by invitation only and the best way to get invited is to post your fics on gw-fan so that I may read them, since this is the main Gundam Wing mailing list I am on.

On the other hand, suggestions about new authors are always welcome, provided it is clear that the final decision is mine and that priority will be given to:

    • authors without their own web pages and who are not already hosted somewhere else in toto
    • authors who do not mind their whole GW output being hosted in one location
    • most original stories
    • best spelled/grammatically correct fics
    • best formatted fics (see the 'Formatting Guidelines')

Suggestions can be sent to me and to clarify further...

Q: why is (my favorite writer) not archived at Gundam Wing Addiction?

A: as Leviathan put it best, 'Probably because they have already been archived at another site, or they have a site of their own. GWA doesn't look for authors who already have web-exposure--after all, what's the point of archiving someone who's already in two or three other places?'

BTW, feel free to volunteer to help with the practical side of archiving if you are HTML-literate or willing to do some boring data-entry and can spare about an hour per day, because I can always use more help... Please volunteer to me or to bonnejeanne who will share administrative duties with me from now on. Thank you Joy and bj: you guys are so nice!

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Credits
Grateful thanks are also due to the phpBB, Gallery and nms development teams; these Open Source scripts are available from Sourceforge.

    Specifically:
  • The Comments form, guestbook and mini-search function are powered by nms Perl scripts
  • Gundam Wing Addiction's own bulletin board uses phpBB2, version 2.04: this will probably stay as is until version 2.2 is released...
  • Finally, the Gundam Wing Addiction gallery is still a work in progress and uses version 1.3.3 of Gallery which uses PHP
  • Oh and before I forget, Qbullets are courtesy of Matterform Media

Gundam Wing Addiction supports Open Source and is proud to use the LAMP environment (linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP).

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archive launch date: 15-Feb-2000