[imc-scotland-discussion] Calendar events on website and our website stuff Re: Meeting on Tuesday

[%20Bunny]

Tom Morton wrote:
> Just a wee reminder that there is an IMC Scotland meeting this Tuesday
> (26 Feb), 7:30pm in the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh. 17 West
> Montgomery Place.
>
> Does anyone think it is a good idea to stick the meeting announcement in
> the razorwire (big hi-lighted red bit at the top of the features list)
> on the site?
>   
At the very least it should be added to:

http://www.radicalendar.org/calendar/imcscotland/index.php?function=edit&id=0

then it will show at:

http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/calendar/

This calendar has separate logins that need to be enabled to edit the
calendar and moderate entries.

Really all the indymedia scotland editors should have these on calendar
too. I have not found time to approve new entries as fast as I should.
One could set it to display entries as soon as posted and have them
moderated only after already displayed like the site itself but in the
past the calendar has been spammed, and so people would still have to
keep eye on it often to remove such spam.

Also I wish to add some more of those actively involved as indymedia
Scotland editors to get list admin messages for this list, also some
other site editorial messages are redirected to the list owner address
so good to get these as well.

Also I thought it was good that users could hide a post with single vote
so any posts that broke editorial guidelines could be hidden earlier
than if only those with editor access could hide them as now is the case
with changing of display threshold. Of course this meant some articles
were hidden that did not break the guidelines, but I would unhide these
when I saw them.  So either way the site will work better if more
editors regularly moderate the newswire.  I myself though better to have
a few articles hidden and had to be unhide later than have posts that
broke guideline displayed for long time, with amount of editors looking
at site limited.

Events use to show in a box in the left hand column on the front page on
day they were but this was removed on changes Tom made before.

At some point we seem to have lost link to links page in top menu.

http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/links

I tried to restore it a while back but had some problems doing so. I am
not sure how ones in left-hand module box get chosen from these; maybe
most hits?


I am not happy at lost of link from the on left hand column front page
of indymedia uk to the scotland sub section on IMCUK. As a result of how
this change done those pages can at this moment not be edited, as well
as people posting to imcuk are no longer able to categorize posting as
being relevant to Scotland. I think it not only a pity people can not
easy find the legacy scotland sub section on imcuk but it can no longer
easily swing into use again, if need be. Were these additional aspects
the wish of the indymedia scotland meeting where this was decided? I
myself was unable to attend the meeting at which it was discussed to
make this request to imcuk.

I may come back on this issue.

cheers,

Micah
http://j12.org/sb/