[imc-scotland-discussion] media gallery

[Tom Morton]

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Anarcho Babe wrote:
> Oh and I think the news box might need to be renamed "other recent features" 
> or something similar because it could be confused with the newswire items?

Ok done.

> Its a bit sad to see that the articles get only a few reads so far - oooops - 
> we haven't been that influential then as we thought we would be?

We can grow.

A student comrade has got permission to have a newspaper box thingy
(like the student paper has) for the IMC scotland mini-paper. we can get
it into other places and make it a slightly more overt advert for the site.

> 
> On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 13:42, Anarcho Babe wrote:
>> Hia,
>>
>> I quite liked the media gallery and would like to have it back, if posible?
>> It is particularily convenient when trying to search for a recent image
>> e.g. to add to features such as Canongate Community Forum?

When you make an article you can click on 'insert an image from another
article', and navigate through articles with images and pick what image
you want to insert.

It wouldn't be too hard to make galleries although I didn't find the way
Dada did them very useful.

>> I like the calendar and the events preview by the way, also nice we
>> rss-feed the imc-uk-features.

Yeah. the events thing is being well used.

>> Though I think it might be good to give them an extra square block and if
>> possible merge the rss-feeds with the ones from Bristol Indymedia and maybe
>> York, too, and also maybe giving Ireland and global an extra box each? Or
>> merge them altogether under recent IMC coverage?

i dunno if it can merge RSS feeds. will look into it.

>> But then maybe all the neighbouring English speaking Imc could have an
>> extra box and the global Imc together with Imc Oceania's feature rss feed
>> and US Imc extra?

Something broken now is syndication from Scotland to other IMC sites.
This is because the feed urls have changed (I totally forgot about
rss...), and there is no features feed. This weekend I'm going to work
on getting that up again. Drupal has a fantastic RSS API, so making
custom RSS feeds using promoted/not promoted, category, section, etc, is
easy.

Only 3 /massive/ show-stopping bugs reported so far, and fixed.

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Tom
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