[imc-scotland-discussion] Website migration

[Tom Morton]

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Anarcho Babe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I still feel there are some unresolved issues with the Drupal site.
> 
> 
> 1.) First of all the seperation of "submit an article" and "submit an
> image". Ideally people who submit pictures should be encouraged to write
> an article with it as well.

Do you think the distinction between images, videos, etc, and articles
should be got rid of? This is easy enough to do.

> 2.) There is also no automatic picture resizing.

yes. this is something that needs to be worked on.

> 3.) The next problem is that we do not have a server.

Our greek server will do fine

> 4.) There is still a huge error message popping up when submiting an
> article:

fixed

> 5.) we should only allow postings in English and Gaelic.

What about Scots? ;)

The languages enabled were only to demonstrate what can be done.

> 6.) before we switch everybody should be able to try out the editorial
> and administrative interface.

Yes. I have created an editor user that you can play with.
Username: testeditor
password: password

> 7.) instead of save it would need to read something like "publish your
> news"

Done

> 8.) audio and video upload

You can attach audio and video to an article.

There is a flash video module that converts uploaded videos to a
youtube-style embedded flash thing. I can't demonstrate it on
infoseed.co.uk because it needs ffmpeg. however,
scotland.indymedia.org's server does have this feature.

> 9.) i miss the seperated newswire, the otherpress section and the search
> option as well as the mission statement, editorial guidelines etc.

Yes. Mike mentioned the seperated newswire. I will work on it.
Otherpress also.

The search feature should work now. I had just set the permissions wrong.

I can't seem to take a database dump of the infoseed.co.uk site, so
adding mission statement and so on would be a waste of time as it would
have to be done again if we switch sites. Of course on the final site we
will have these things.

> 10.) what about the hidden section?

There is a link at the bottom of the newswire

http://infoseed.co.uk/?q=newswire/hidden

> 11.) we would need to see if its possible to backdate articles.
> 
> 12.) what about razorwire/breaking news ?

Drupal articles can be marked 'sticky' which means they remain at the
top of the page. I haven't added this feature to the editor interface
yet but it is accessible from the standard drupal admin interface.

> 13.) I like what Belgium did to their frontpage, as to move away from
> the features and have also a subsections for resyndicated headlines from
> Blogs and press releases etc. we should be thinking of doing something
> similar - imho - like have syndicated headline from the ACE website or
> the Camcorder Guerillas atc.

yes that would be cool

> 14.) How would we move over the content? Would it be possible to do
> automatically?

There is a module to import dada databases to drupal. I'd like to
demonstrate it but imc scotland has 2 gigs of media and I haven't had
the time to find a recent subset of this to upload to infoseed.co.uk

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Tom
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