somniloquence

While fannish curation of history is great, a real fannish archives will be running out of an institution with a strict code of ethics, not out of a crowd-sourced wiki.

Your being an archivist reminds me of an archiving controversy I read about fairly recently, the On Our Backs zine and how it was very privately circulated at first and people in it signed limited releases, an then it was digitized and everyone could see it and IIRC they hadn't even asked for the releases first? And what was striking was, apparently nobody thought about any ramifications of putting this really sensitive material online, it was just "it's out of print and I want people to be able to see it, so it's going up on the internet with no identity protection whatsoever." (And then their defense was "the digitization rights have been fully cleared in accordance with current copyright law," which was....not a good look.)