[imc-scotland-discussion] Indymedia Scotland

[Mike]

By adding a pre-publish age we'd just be offering that as a guidance to the most appropriate place, so people would still have the choice.

Mike



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From: Anarcho Babe <anarchobabe at fempages.org>
To: imc-uk-network <imc-uk-network at lists.indymedia.org>
Cc: imcscotland discussion <imc-scotland-discussion at lists.indymedia.org>; imc-uk-process at lists.indymedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March, 2008 1:09:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Imc-uk-network] Scottish Indymedia

O well, if you find somebody who likes to do the work and has fun doing it 
then I don't mind. 

But I do think users should have a choice of where they want to publish, so I 
don't think they should be forced to use a particular IMC.
And there will always be some users who prefer one to the other for whatever 
reason, and that is fine by me and hopefully with everybody else. For example 
some students said they prefer imc uk because they received less slagging off 
for their little banner protest they did. And other activists say they prefer 
imc uk for the picture size or similar and some even say the exact opposite: 
prefering Imc Scotland to Imc UK because of less slagging off in the comment 
section. It seems now pretty much a personal and arbitrary decision and many 
activists seem to post on both and read and check both regularly.

At that point it doesn't really seem to be so relevant anymore to put up 
another link directing people to imc scotland, especially when we change the 
concept of the frontpage and may include regional rss feeds soon anyways.

cheerio and thanks for all the nice work you do with the imcs!
I should be dropping a line to the imc-scotland discussion list maybe and see 
what people think there...
Ulla


On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008 12:40, Mike wrote:
> I think a pre-publish notice directing people here:
> http://scotland.indymedia.org/ would be a great idea. Increasingly protest
> and campaigns centre around the political institutions at Holyrood.
>
> in solidarity
> Mike
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Anarcho Babe <anarchobabe at fempages.org>
> To: ekes <ekes at riseup.net>; imc-uk-process at lists.indymedia.org
> Cc: maqui <maqui at syndicate.org.uk>; imc-uk-network
> <imc-uk-network at lists.indymedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March, 2008
> 11:06:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Imc-uk-network] [Imc-uk-process] Scottish Indymedia
>
> Hia,
>
> I think many activists prefer posting on Indymedia UK as it has much more
> readers, news, inclusiveness and prominence. For many activists it will be
> an informed choice now where they publish. I don't think you would need to
> bother with putting in extra links and similar - for example the Scotland
> IMC site has also been a bit shaky in the last weeks and there is work
> going on with switching to Drupal, so it might be actually of advantage to
> just leave it as it is for the moment. When we (as in Imc UK) change the
> frontpage it might resolve the problem anyways.
>
> In a way it is quite nice to know that some people prefer to publish on
> Indymedia UK - because I can remember that when it started off in 2001 or
> so, that was hardly the case, activists felt like their actions were so
> insignificant in numbers and outcome compared with London. And look at it
> now! It's great how the network evolved and how the little actions all
> over the country make a much bigger impact and picture than one
> demo/rally/protest in London.
>
> Actually I don't know if I can liase anymore properly from Imc Uk to Imc
> Scotland as a whole new bunch of people is now taking on the project and
> spending much more effort and time and energy on it than I do, and I quite
> enjoy them doing it and am having a bit of a break at the moment, which
> means that I have absolutely no clue what's happening and what they want.
>
> cheerio Ulla
>
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:29:14 -0000, ekes <ekes at riseup.net> wrote:
> > [[cc'ing Network into this discussion as I think that maybe where
> > Bristol and Scotland people are as well?]]
> >
> > maqui wrote:
> >>> maybe we should add a note to the prepublish page to say that if your
> >>> news is about Bristol, Scotland or York, please publish it on that
> >>> indymedia site (and on the UK site if relevant, at least until we share
> >>> content more automatically ...)  The prepublish page would have links
> >>> both to the main page for each site, and direct to their publish pages.
> >>
> >> This makes sense to me, but ideally i would like to see a technical fix
> >> to be able to share content within different cms, as I don't think many
> >> people will bother to publish the same article twice, in two different
> >> publish forms. And my guess is that, as a result, quite a few people
> >> will decide to publish in the UK only just because it has got more
> >> exposure.
> >
> > I agree here. For UK Mir can actually pull feeds from elsewhere - but
> > it's finding someone with the know how and the time to set it up. Don't
> > know about Bristol, but from the Network meeting they seemed
> > enthusiastic. Scotland are moving to Drupal as it's a cinch to set up
> > basic or even full content aggregation if they want to. York already
> > does have feeds on the front page, and if it's worth keeping it alive I
> > can actually make it pull the full articles easily.
> >
> > I note that as it happens Bristol, and York both have it it in their
> > Editorial and Publishing guidelines to post to the appropriate forum
> > elsewhere if it isn't specifically related to the region.
> >
> > ekes
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