[imc-scotland-discussion] Shiny new features on the site

[Tom]

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Hello people,

Although the decision-making cranium of Indymedia Scotland quietly died
some time last autumn, the body itself has been positively wriggling
with the activity of hundreds of autonomous contributors.

In keeping with the rotting corpse covered in autonomous maggots
organizational model, I have continued working on new capabilities for
the website. One of the features I have wriggled away at is to allow
importing of articles from RSS feeds.

This means that campaign groups and grass-roots journalism from the
likes of burgh angel, etc, can be imported directly into indymedia
scotland without those writers having to submit their story twice.

The RSS-imported articles appear (hidden to normal users) in a queue,
awaiting editing (or deletion, if they are not appropriate for indymedia
scotland). Probably editors will want to add categorisation to these
articles before they are unhidden and appear on the regular newswire.

The next issue is how we decide as a group which RSS feeds should be
imported in this way. I though that since we don't have face-to-face
organizing meetings anymore, it might be easier to put RSS feed
proposals to an online vote of site contributors, that is anyone who has
written a decent story in the last wee while.

What do people think about this?

Editors can have a look at the demo site http://scotland.imcscotland.org
for an example of imported feed (ECAP feed is imported on the demo site).

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Tom
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