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Another year, another AO3 anniversary! In what turned out to be unfortunate timing on our part, we planned to use this anniversary to spotlight the AO3 curse … but it seems we accidentally activated it in the process. Communications apologizes for jinxing the site – who knew we were so powerful?
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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 Linwëlin, who volunteers as a Tag Wrangler on the Tag Wrangling committee.
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AO3 Tag Wranglers continue our processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don't belong to any particular fandom (also known as "No Fandom" tags). This post overviews some of these upcoming changes.