Skyehawke

skyehawke was an automated archive for multifandom fanfiction and original fiction, which consisted of three divisions: an archive, a forum and a LiveJournal.
It was, according to the founder Fiona Lim, "unlike other archives on the internet, skyehawke dot com :: archives is Australian based, running on (what I believe to be) the first fiction rating system tailored for written rather than visual media." skyehawke dot com News, Fiona Lim (2003?) 
It was staffed by four admins: Ashe (since June 2005), Calvin Hobbes (since July 2003), Teyla (since March 2005), Tien Riu (since 2001), and a group of volunteers.
On the 22nd of March, 2003, the site changed its URL, and this successful installation signaled the closure of Castle Skyehawke Archives (1994 - 2003). The new URL was automated and, other than one known bug (Microsoft Word HTML files causing strange appending problems), met the objectives first set for Castle Skyehawke Archives: a place for well written fiction from a diverse selection of writers.Excerpt extracted from the website skyehawke dot com :: archives.
This archive was based in Australia. The website runs on Dragon Bulb, "an amalgamation between iodesigns' Storyline version 1.8 and Dragonware's Dragon!Bulb version 1.0".Dragon Bulb Software Profile, accessed May 5th, 2009 and archived at July 29, 2017.
The Forum was a place for archive users (and the "general public") to interact and chat. As of October 28, 2016, the Forum was not operational but fans continued to occasionally upload stories to the archives.
The LJ Community was first introduced in 2003 to address gaps that would arise when there were website host provider downtimes. It was mainly an admin site. The last update dated June 14, 2015.
==The Archive==
The archive was skyehawke's main attraction. Fiction could be posted to six main categories: animation/illustrated, book, tv/movie, original fiction, original non-fiction and games/comics. 
There were generally few rules as to what fiction can be posted, as long as it was "well written". To ensure a level of quality, skyehawke was a closed community. One must had to invited by a registered user to get an account. All registered skyehawke users could create accounts, but:
===Regarding Ratings===
==Fandom Sponsors==
A distinctive feature of the archive was the use of Fandom Sponsors, users that acted as moderators for a given fandom. Sponsors could post news about their fandom and do some maintenance work (like adding or editing characters for their fandom).
===Archive Content===
thumb|300px|Section sizesThese figures are based on the counts on the category pages and the total fic count given in the site stats page on 4/9/2010.
skyehawke was a popular archive for Harry Potter fanfictionThe story with most hits and reviews is aspeninthesunlight's A Year Like None Other, as evidenced by the Statistics Page, accessed May 5th 2009 and archived at June 16, 2017., but it also offers a home to rarer fandoms, like Ursula Le Guin or Die Hard.
Harry Potter fic by itself accounts for 65% of material on the archive.This calculation is based on the number of fics, not wordcount or other factors. 
Other large fandoms were Stargate, Buffy & Angel, and Lord of the Rings, each of which accounted for about 2%.
In addition to original fiction and more conventional fandoms, skyehawke also hosted original nonfiction including editorials, essays, fanfiction guides and tips, and journal entries.
See: Statistics via Wayback Machine.
==Content Abuse/Reporting and The Illiterati==
In 2005, Australia passed stricter child exploitation laws and the archive revised their terms of service to allow people to challenge fanfic by requesting that the fiction be removed. They created a review board called the "Illiterati." However, the site's revised list of banned fiction went beyond child exploitation and included a wide range of objectionable text including non-con fic between adults written to sexually excite the reader. This caused much confusion.
:See Illiterati for much more.
==References==
Category:Multifandom Archives
Category:2000sCategory:2010s